IT System

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-002274",
  "term": "IT System",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. Any organized assembly of resources and procedures united and regulated by interaction or interdependence to accomplish a set of specific functions.\nNote: Systems also include specialized systems such as industrial/process controls systems, telephone switching and private branch exchange (PBX) systems, and environmental control systems.\n\n2. A combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes.\n\n3. a collection of computing and/or communications components and otherresources that support one or more functional objectives of an organization. IT system resources include any IT component plus associated manual procedures and physical facilities that are used in the acquisition, storage, manipulation, display, and/or movement of data or to direct or monitor operating procedures. An IT system may consist of one or more computers and their related resources of any size. The resources that comprise a system do not have to be physically connected.\n\n4. See information system.\n\n5. A discrete set of resources that are organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information.\n\n6. Combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes.\n\n7. A specific IT installation, with a particular purpose and operational environment.\n\n8. Discrete set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information.\n\n9. See Information System\n\n10. A discrete set of information resources organized expressly for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of information.",
  "synonyms": [
    "System"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-12 Rev. 1 from NIST SP 800-53",
    "NIST SP 800-161 [Superseded] from ISO/IEC 15288; NISTIR 7622 from ISO/IEC 15288:2008",
    "NIST SP 800-16",
    "NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-137; NIST SP 800-18 Rev. 1 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-30 Rev. 1; NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 1 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-39; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-60 Vol. 1 Rev. 1; NIST SP 800-60 Vol. 2 Rev. 1",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5",
    "NISTIR 8062 from ISO/IEC 15288",
    "NISTIR 5153 from ITSEC Ver. 1.2",
    "NISTIR 7693",
    "NISTIR 8170",
    "NISTIR 8286 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/it-system/"
}