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Which of the following refers to policies, procedures, and technical measures used to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, theft, or physical damage to information systems?

a. ""Benchmarking""
b. ""Algorithms""
c. ""Controls""
d. ""Security''

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Step-by-step explanation:

d. security

surprise, surprise ...

benchmarking means setting a standard or baseline usually regarding system performance. and then others measure against this.

algorithms is in general any technical strategy, the "recipe" of a method to get a result of of certain input factors (like how you implement a sorting of a list of elements).

controls are things that allow the user some steering of the system (like a joystick). or sometimes also some consistency checks of a system (but true, also of security systems of security parts of a system) to detect that something went wrong (either unintentional or intentional tempering).

bottom line : all are also topics of security systems or security elements of a general system.

but the name for all this and more to protect a system, it's environment and users (particularly use information) from unauthorized access, ... is "security".

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