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Environment

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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'