application domain
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violations can span systems and application domains, organizations consider the entirety of their systems andthe sentence this term was read in
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- Protecting specified information in non-Government of Canada systems and organizations (ITSP.10.171) - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
- Domain Separation - Glossary | CSRC
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A logical grouping defined by the scope or purpose of one or more software applications, used as a unit of analysis for policy, access control, and risk reasoning across an enterprise environment. It differs from a technical isolation construct (like an OS process or security domain) by functioning as an organizational or architectural boundary—one that human roles and workflows cross—rather than a hard enforcement boundary enforced by a kernel or hypervisor. In frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53, the term appears when policies governing duties, privileges, or information flows must be evaluated not just within a single system but across the full set of systems and application domains that together constitute a business process, because a violation or conflict may only be visible when the whole landscape is examined.
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