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business requirement

nounid 163512·updated Aug 30, 2026
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A condition or need — operational, legal, regulatory, contractual, or organizational — that an enterprise must satisfy in order to carry out its mission and sustain its operations, independent of any particular technical solution. In security and compliance frameworks, the term is used compositionally: "business" scopes the requirement to the enterprise's mission and operational context (contrasted with, for example, purely technical or regulatory requirements in isolation), while "requirement" carries its ordinary engineering/governance meaning of a constraint that must be met. NIST uses it to describe the mission and operational context within which security controls must fit, and as business requirements change, security mechanisms such as access controls must adapt accordingly. Federal agencies apply security concepts in accordance with and in the context of the agency's missions, business functions, and environment of operation — "business requirement" being the shorthand for that contextual driver.

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NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
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A condition or need — operational, legal, regulatory, contractual, or organizational — that an enterprise must satisfy in order to carry out its mission and sustain its operations, independent of any particular technical solution. In security and compliance frameworks, the term is used compositionally: "business" scopes the requirement to the enterprise's mission and operational context (contrasted with, for example, purely technical or regulatory requirements in isolation), while "requirement" carries its ordinary engineering/governance meaning of a constraint that must be met. NIST uses it to describe the mission and operational context within which security controls must fit, and as business requirements change, security mechanisms such as access controls must adapt accordingly. Federal agencies apply security concepts in accordance with and in the context of the agency's missions, business functions, and environment of operation — "business requirement" being the shorthand for that contextual driver.

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NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 confirmed by a reviewer · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.01.h ¶ 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
business requirements
possessive
business requirement's
pluralpossessive
business requirements'

Framework definitions

NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
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.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · web_lookup_draft
A condition or need — operational, legal, regulatory, contractual, or organizational — that an enterprise must satisfy in order to carry out its mission and sustain its operations, independent of any particular technical solution. In security and compliance frameworks, the term is used compositionally: "business" scopes the requirement to the enterprise's mission and operational context (contrasted with, for example, purely technical or regulatory requirements in isolation), while "requirement" carries its ordinary engineering/governance meaning of a constraint that must be met. NIST uses it to describe the mission and operational context within which security controls must fit, and as business requirements change, security mechanisms such as access controls must adapt accordingly. Federal agencies apply security concepts in accordance with and in the context of the agency's missions, business functions, and environment of operation — "business requirement" being the shorthand for that contextual driver.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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