Environment of Operation
nounid
2476·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
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).
polysemousMWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.12.01 ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
Physical0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- plural
- Environment of Operations
- possessive
- Environment of Operation's
- pluralpossessive
- Environment of Operations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- The physical surroundings in which an information system processes, stores, and transmits information.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- 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).
- §1
- The physical surroundings in which an information system processes, stores, and transmits information.
- §1
- The physical surroundings in which an information system processes, stores, and transmits information.
- §1
- 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).
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- 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.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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).DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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