system component

nounid 163417·updated Aug 30, 2026

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A discrete, identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware. [26]

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Source

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document: NIST Special Publication 800 NIST SP 800-172r3 Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
publisher: NIST
found in: Appendix B. Glossary
discovery: AuthoritativeImport

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Attested in

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NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems50 citations · 50 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01

03.01.04.b ¶ 103.01.08.b ¶ 103.01.16.d ¶ 103.01.20.d ¶ 103.03.04.b ¶ 203.03.05.c ¶ 103.03.07.b ¶ 103.04.01.b03.04.01.b ¶ 103.04.02.b ¶ 303.04.03.d ¶ 103.04.06.d ¶ 103.04.06.d ¶ 203.04.1003.04.10.a03.04.10.b03.04.10.c03.04.10.c ¶ 103.04.10.c ¶ 203.04.10.c ¶ 203.04.11.a03.04.11.b03.04.11.b ¶ 103.04.12.a+26 more

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset Component100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

surface forms

No variants recorded

This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.

Framework definitions

4 senses across 4 frameworks

NIST SP 800-172r31 senseview framework →

§1 · glossary: A discrete, identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware. [26]
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)

NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →

§1 · glossary: A discrete identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware. [41]
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)

TSP Section 1001 senseview framework →

§1 · glossary: Refers to the individual elements of a system, which may be classified into the following five categories: infrastructure, software, people, processes, and data.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)

Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →

§1 · legacy_primary: A discrete, identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware. [26]
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

term as subject — 3 triples

broaderPartitive: →Infrastructurenoun
→softwarenoun
→information assetnoun

Incoming relationships

term as object — 0 triples

No incoming triples

No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.