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System Development Life Cycle

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

The scope of activities associated with a system, encompassing the system’s initiation, development and acquisition, implementation, operation and maintenance, and ultimately its disposal that instigates another system initiation.

Framework senses

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
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The phases deployed in the development or acquisition of a software system Scope Note: SDLC is an approach used to plan, design, develop, test and implement an application system or a major modification to an application system. Typical phases of SDLC include the feasibility study, requirements study, requirements definition, detailed design, programming, testing, installation and post- implementation review, but not the service delivery or benefits realization activities.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
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A series of stages that the process of system development goes through in order to design and produce a system.
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
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A series of stages that the process of system development goes through in order to design and produce a system.
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
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A series of stages that the process of system development goes through in order to design and produce a system.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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The scope of activities associated with a system, encompassing the system’s initiation, development and acquisition, implementation, operation and maintenance, and ultimately its disposal that instigates another system initiation.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
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The scope of activities associated with a system, encompassing the system’s initiation, development and acquisition, implementation, operation and maintenance, and ultimately its disposal that instigates another system initiation.
NIST SP 800-341 senseview framework →
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The scope of activities associated with a system, encompassing the system’s initiation, development and acquisition, implementation, operation and maintenance, and ultimately its disposal that instigates another system initiation.