Correct construction for "easily protected against"

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What I am trying to express is that I have a problem P and a good G and it is easy to protect G from P.
However, G is not the focus of the sentence and P was described in the previous sentence.

So I would like to say something like:

There is the additional problem P. However, it is easily protected against.

With it referring to the problem P and without going into what G is again. However, the construction seems complicated and possibly plain incorrect. What we would be a good expression?

I also considered:

There is the additional problem P. However, it is easy to protect against.

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It depends on the specific kind of problem P.

In general, stylists frown on the use of the passive tense, so I would advise against "it is easily protected against" on that ground.

With P being very vague, I could accept "it is easy to protect against" but I do not love it. In fact, I would perhaps go as far as changing the structure of the paragraph to avoid using that construction.

I also would prefer to chose a more specific verb than "protect" but which verb to use depends on the problem P.

If we overlook the fact that many of these example problems are not actually easily protected against, you could say

A terrorist threat is easily countered
  
  The potential for rain is easily handled by having the event indoors
  
  There is also a potential denial of service attack, but we can easily thwart that
  
  We may face labor unrest, but we can easily quash any organized protest
  
  We could face a lawsuit over trademark infringement, but we have adequate defenses against that

Correct construction for "easily protected against"

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