Definitions[]
Department of Homeland Security[]
A system is
“ | [a]ny combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications integrated for a specific purpose.[1] | ” |
NIST[]
A system is
“ | a complex of software, hardware, and human resources that jointly accomplishes one or more business functions. A system may be pre-designed or arise ad hoc by action of one or more of the participating human or software resources.[2] | ” |
Technology[]
A system is
“ | a group of devices or objects forming a network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose (e.g. telephone, data processing systems).[3] | ” |
“ | [a] [s]et of related technology components that work together to support a business process or provide a service.[4] | ” |
“ | [a] collection of components organized to accomplish a specific function or set of functions.[5] | ” |
“ | [an] amalgam[] of many interacting components that are combined to perform a particular set of functions, however broadly those functions may be defined. Systems must maintain their performance guarantees under widely varying and unknown external (and internal) conditions.[6] | ” |
References[]
- ↑ National Infrastructure Protection Plan, at 111.
- ↑ NIST, Concepts for Automating Systems Integration (NISTIR 6928) (Feb. 2003) (full-text).
- ↑ National Transit Database Glossary.
- ↑ ENISA, Glossary (full-text).
- ↑ A Practical Guide to Federal Enterprise Architecture, at 69, App. B, Glossary.
- ↑ Making IT Better: Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society's Needs, at 32.