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One category of general controls is physical and online security. Describe the control and give at least three examples of implementation of the control.
General Controls are the basic controls that are related to the various aspects of the IT function. These are the controls that are related to the various functions like systems development , computer operation controls , separation of IT duties, back up and recovery controls , online security and physical security controls , hardware controls etc.
Physical controls over the computer systems are the safeguards that are put in place in order to restrict the access to the hardware , software and back up data files .
Examples of Physical controls are are as follows:
Online security controls are the controls that are put in place to restrict the access to software and the various data files and thereby minimizing and preventing the chances of any unauthorized access or any unauthorized changes that can possibly be made to the software or the organization’s data .
Examples of online security controls are are as follows: