# Controls

> The safeguards and countermeasures put in place to reduce security or compliance risk to an acceptable level.

Record: `lexicon:controls`
Kind: mechanism
Layer: [Security Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/security-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-controls

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Continuous Authorization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/continuous-authorization.md) and before [Data Minimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/data-minimization.md).

## Category

- [Security Privacy Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/security-privacy-compliance.md)

## Required by

- [Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/compliance.md)

## Linked from

- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)