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Preventive control
An internal control that is used to prevent undesirable events, errors and other occurrences that an organisation has determined could have a negative material effect on a process or end product
source: COBIT 4.0
A control that helps prevent the occurrence of a risk. A preventive control is more desirable than a detective control.
source: Champlain, Auditing Information Systems:2003
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