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procedure

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An established or official method for implementing a policy or performing a task or operation which must be executed in the same manner in order to obtain the same results in the same circumstances.

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Senses

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

A document containing a detailed description of the steps necessary to perform specific operations in conformance with applicable standards. Procedures are defined as part of processes.

Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary

Information item that presents an ordered series of steps to perform a process, activity, or task.

Wordset Dictionary

a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

Wordset Dictionary

a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

Wordset Dictionary

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

Wordset Dictionary

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement90%rule-basedr:entity.requirement.policy.v1
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
formal processfunctionoperationprocessroutinesubprogramsubroutine
alternatephrasing
Procedure
plural
procedures
possessive
procedure's
pluralpossessive
procedures'