Security teams face an overwhelming reality: too many exposures, too few resources, and limited time to patch everything. In practice, direct remediation is often delayed or even impossible—yet the risks remain. That’s where compensating controls come in.
In this guide, CardinalOps breaks down what compensating controls are, how they fit into modern layered defense strategies, and how they can be applied across real-world scenarios to reduce exposure risk without disrupting business operations.
Download this report to learn:
- The definition of compensating controls, and how they differ from primary security controls.
- How prevention, detection, and corrective controls work together to strengthen security posture and cover relevant gaps.
- What “defense in depth” is, and how it works in practice with more realistic “defense in breadth” tactics using compensating controls.
- Real-world examples of compensating controls for legacy applications, insecure protocols, web app vulnerabilities, and endpoint misconfigurations.
- How to incorporate compensating controls into exposure management programs for resilience and agility.
- Best practices for leveraging compensating controls alongside vulnerability management, CSPM, DSPM, and other security processes and programs.
