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Originally from ISO 17799 now ISO/IEC 27002 .

#Risk assessment and treatment - analysis of the organization's information security risks
#Security policy - management direction
#Organization of information security - governance of information security
#Asset management - inventory and classification of information assets
#Human resources security - security aspects for employees joining, moving and leaving an organization
#Physical and environmental security - protection of the computer facilities
#Communications and operations management - management of technical security controls in systems and networks
#Access control - restriction of access rights to networks, systems, applications, functions and data
#Information systems acquisition, development and maintenance - building security into applications
#Information security incident management - anticipating and responding appropriately to information security breaches
#Business continuity management - protecting, maintaining and recovering business-critical processes and systems
#Compliance - ensuring conformance with information security policies, standards, laws and regulations


U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

From NIST Special Publication SP 800-53 revision 1.

#AC Access Control
#AT Awareness and Training
#AU Audit and Accountability
#CA Certification, Accreditation, and Security Assessments
#CM Configuration Management
#CP Contingency Planning
#IA Identification and Authentication
#IR Incident Response
#MA Maintenance
#MP Media Protection
#PE Physical and Environmental Protection
#PL Planning
#PS Personnel Security
#RA Risk Assessment
#SA System and Services Acquisition
#SC System and Communications Protection
#SI System and Information Integrity

The control is then applied another dimension of basic Defense In Depth (computing) categories of People - Techonology - Operations/Process.


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

From DoD Instruction 8500.2 there are 8 Information Assurance (IA) areas and the controls are referred to as IA controls.
#DC Security Design & Configuration
#IA Identification and Authentication
#EC Enclave and Computing Environment
#EB Enclave Boundary Defense
#PE Physical and Environmental
#PR Personnel
#CO Continuity
#VI Vulnerability and Incident Management

DoD assigns the IA control per CIA Triad leg.


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