Environment of Operation
The physical, technical, and organizational setting in which an information system operates, including but not limited to: missions/business functions; mission/business processes; threat space; vulnerabilities; enterprise and information security architectures; personnel; facilities; supply chain relationships; information technologies; organizational governance and culture; acquisition and procurement processes; organizational policies and procedures; organizational assumptions, constraints, risk tolerance, and priorities/trade-offs).
Senses
The physical surroundings in which an information system processes, stores, and transmits information.
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
Sensitivity
Information Class
Variants
- plural
- Environment of Operations
- possessive
- Environment of Operation's
- pluralpossessive
- Environment of Operations'