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Detective control
A control that is used to identify events (undesirable or desired), errors and other occurrences that an enterprise has determined to have a material effect on a process or end product
source: COBIT 4.0
A control that helps identify the occurrence of a risk. A detective control is less desirable than a preventive control.
source: Champlain, Auditing Information Systems:2003
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