Environment
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Aggregate of external procedures, conditions, and objects affecting the development, operation, and maintenance of an information system.
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Senses
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
The accommodation, air conditioning, power system, etc. in the physical environment.
Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary
Anything affecting a subject system or affected by a subject system through interactions with it, or anything sharing an interpretation of interactions with a subject system
Wordset Dictionary
the area in which something exists or lives
Wordset Dictionary
the totality of surrounding conditions
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
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Variants
- synonym
- environs
- plural
- Environments
- possessive
- Environment's
- pluralpossessive
- Environments'