system management
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A category of organizational activity encompassing the ongoing administration, configuration, operation, and oversight of information systems to ensure they function securely and in accordance with policy. In security and compliance frameworks, it appears as a functional domain alongside activities such as risk assessments, security programming, and personnel management — denoting the day-to-day operational stewardship of systems rather than any narrower mechanism. Authority documents such as NIST SP 800-12 use "system management personnel" as a distinct role category alongside general users and security personnel, and the broader field treats systems management as enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems — making the phrase compositional rather than a term with a fixed, field-specific definition not derivable from its parts.
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