An organization takes active countermeasures to protect its systems, such as installing firewalls. This approach is known as .

Risk reduction.

Explanation:

Risk management can be defined as the process of identifying, evaluating, analyzing and controlling potential threats or risks present in a business as an obstacle to its capital, revenues and profits.

This ultimately implies that, risk management involves prioritizing course of action or potential threats in order to mitigate the risk that are likely to arise from such business decisions. Also, it is considered to be the most important part of any organization or project.

A firewall is a network security protocol that monitors and controls inbound and outbound traffic based on set aside security rules.

Generally, a firewall is used to control access to a computer or network, as it creates a barrier between a computer or a network and the internet in order to protect against unauthorized access. It is a security system pre-installed on most computers to essentially inspect data being transmitted to or from a computer.

Furthermore, firewalls are typically bidirectional, it checks all sent and received data and only allow authorized traffic through.

Hence, when an organization takes active countermeasures to protect its systems, such as installing firewalls. This approach is known as risk reduction because it mitigates, minimizes or limits (reduces) the chances of its systems and data being circumvented or compromised by a hacker, intruder and third party.

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