# Managing Controls

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Edit Controls**</mark>

Editing controls allow users to modify the details or applicability of a control to better fit their organization’s operational model or compliance requirements.

<mark style="color:orange;">**Search Control:**</mark> First, search for the relevant control with the search tool.&#x20;

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Click <mark style="color:blue;">**"Edit"**</mark>

<mark style="color:orange;">**Select Control:**</mark> Choose the control from the list.

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<mark style="color:blue;">**Confirm**</mark> and <mark style="color:blue;">**save**</mark> the changes to update the <mark style="color:blue;">**control status**</mark> and details within the dashboard.

<mark style="color:orange;">**Marking as**</mark><mark style="color:orange;">**&#x20;**</mark>*<mark style="color:orange;">**Not Applicable**</mark>*<mark style="color:orange;">**:**</mark>&#x20;

If a particular control does not apply to the organization—for example, if certain physical security measures are irrelevant for a cloud-based infrastructure—users can designate that control as *<mark style="color:blue;">**"Not Applicable."**</mark>*

### <mark style="color:blue;">**Removing and Attaching Policies, Procedures and Evidence**</mark>

<mark style="color:orange;">**Choose the Specific Control:**</mark> Select the control to which you want to attach or remove documents/evidence.

<mark style="color:orange;">**Click the "Attach" or "Remove" Button:**</mark> Initiate the attachment process by clicking the "Attach" button and remove process by clicking the "Remove" button

<mark style="color:orange;">**Upload Relevant Files:**</mark> Upload or Remove the relevant policy, procedure or evidence file.

<mark style="color:orange;">**Confirm and Save Changes:**</mark> Confirm the attachment and save the changes to update the control.

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