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Safeguard - technical definition
A feature, procedure, process, or technique intended to
mitigate the effects of intrusion risk but that rarely if ever eliminates all risk. It does reduce risk to some
acceptable organizational or institutional level.
See Also: Risk.
Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.] Symantec
Security Response Website.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.
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