system component

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004187",
  "term": "system component",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. A discrete identifiable information or operational technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware.\n\n2. A hardware, software, or firmware part or element of a larger system with well-defined inputs and outputs and a specific function.\n\n3. A hardware, software, firmware part or element of a larger PNT system with well-defined inputs and outputs and a specific function.\n\n4. Smallest selectable set of elements on which requirements may be based.\n\n5. A discrete, identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware.\n\n6. A discrete identifiable information technology asset that represents a building block of a system and may include hardware, software, and firmware.\n\n7. See system component.\n\n8. See information system component.\n\n9. Discrete identifiable information technology assets that represent a building block of a system and include hardware, software, firmware, and virtual machines.\n\n10. A discrete, identifiable information technology asset (hardware, software, firmware) that represents a building block of a system. System components include commercial information technology products.\n\n11. See system element.",
  "abbreviation": "component",
  "synonyms": [
    "information technology product",
    "SC"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-161r1-upd1 [11/1/2024 errata update]",
    "NIST IR 8401 from DHS RCF (adapted); NIST IR 8441 from DHS RCF (Adapted)",
    "NIST IR 8323r1 from NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 1 (adapted), DHS RCF v2.0 (adapted)",
    "CNSSI 4009-2022 from ISO/IEC 15408-1:2009",
    "NIST SP 800-172r3 from NIST SP 800-63-4",
    "NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 [Superseded] from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2 from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-172 [Superseded] from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5 from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-172A [Superseded] from NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-171r3 from NIST SP 800-128",
    "NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-172 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-128; NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5",
    "CNSSI 4009-2015",
    "NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 [Superseded] from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 Rev. 1 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 1 [Superseded] from NIST SP 800-128 (Adapted)",
    "NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/system-component/"
}