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COMPLIANCE-BASICS5 MIN READ

Sort Preventive, Detective, and Corrective Controls

Differentiate preventive, detective, and corrective controls in everyday compliance work.

Place each control example in the right bucket. Sort by what the control mainly does: stop the problem first, reveal it after or during occurrence, or reduce harm and recurrence after discovery. Preventive Detective Corrective Dual approval required before a high-risk vendor can receive funds Quarterly review of privileged access exports against HR status Access removal and root-cause review after an orphan account is discovered Sanctions screening before activating a reseller Hotline trend review looking for repeat retaliation themes Re-issuing payments and updating the workflow after duplicate disbursement is found Mandatory conflict-of-interest disclosure before manager approval of a contract Exception-aging…

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