SysFEAT - Systemic Framework for Enterprise Architecture & Transformationk

BUILDING BLOCK - Assurance System

Description	Abstract Concept An Assurance System is a Management System aimed at ensuring enterprise compliance, resilience, and risk mitigation against both internal and external Policys and threats. It encompasses processes, Directives and technologies that work in concert to validate enterprise adherence to policy requirements, industry standards, and internal policies while simultaneously bolstering the enterprise's ability to withstand and adapt to various challenges and disruptions. ensuring enterprise compliance and resilience against internal and external constraints: a. Regulation constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the law (See Regulation Article). b. Internal policies and rules constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the enterprise (see Business Policy). c. Operational constraints: they maintain operational capacities of the company (maintain ability to produce, maintain quality, ensure product development , ability to hire, to train, etc, see Business Rule). d. Architectural constraints: they guide design decisions and shape the overall structure of a system (see Architecture principle).
Super Types	Assurance Initiative Management System
Functional Domain	Operational Assurance The Operational Assurance domain provides a framework for systematic and evidence-based methodologies for ensuring that an enterprise's processes, systems, and services consistently meet defined trustworthiness criteria across multiple domains, including privacy, safety, security, business continuity, and quality. It establishes a structured framework for:
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Lexical Scope	Model Lexical Scope Model Container

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Relationship	Cardinality	Target Entity	Source Entity	Description
Owned Assurance Case	[*..0]	Assurance Case	Assurance System
Packaged Assurance Instrument	[*..0]	Assurance Instrument	Assurance System
Enforced Policy Framework	[*..0]	Policy Framework	Assurance System	The set of Policy Frameworks that an Assurance System is responsible for enforcing and verifying compliance against.
Policy Item in Scope	[*..0]	Policy	Assurance System
Concerned Organization	[1..1]	Organization	Management System
Dependent Portfolio	[*..0]	Management System	Management System
Sub-Management System	[*..0]	Management System	Management System
/Management Roadmap	[*..0]	Management Stage	Management System	Set of all Management Stages of a Management System that , in conjunction with coordinating initiative milestones, establishes the roadmap for the Functional Assets under its supervision.
Management System Subject	[*..0]	Asset Block	Management System
Aggregate Composition	[*..0]	Bounded Individual	Bounded Individual	Aggregate Composition is a reified Composition (Whole/Part) where the composed Individual becomes a Composite Member of the whole Bounded Individual.
Temporal Sequencing	[*..0]	Temporal Bounding	Bounded Individual
Packaged Property Block	[*..0]	Model Property Block	Model Container
Packaged Model Block	[*..0]	Model Building Block	Model Container
Packaged Documentation	[*..0]	Documentation	Model Container
Packaged Tag	[*..0]	Tag	Model Container
Imported Model Container	[*..0]	Model Container	Model Container	The Imported Model Container relationship extends the Model Lexical Scope of a Model Container to Model Building Blocks of the imported Model Container.
Nested Description Node	[*..0]	Description Note	Model Lexical Scope
Bounded Member	[*..0]	Bounded Aggregate	Aggregate Entity Block	A Bounded Member is an Entity Member that aggregates a Bounded Aggregate.Bounded Members can be related by means of Connectors which connect an Exit Border of a source Bounded Member to a corresponding Entry Border of a target Bounded Member.
Unbounded Member	[*..0]	Unbounded Aggregate	Aggregate Entity Block	An Unbounded Member is an Entity Member of an Aggregate Entity Block that aggregates an Unbounded Aggregate.Because Entity Members do not have borders, Unbounded Members cannot be related by Connection Relationships (see Bounded Aggregate).
Hierarchical Member	[*..0]	Building Block	Aggregate Block	A Hierarchical Member is an Aggregate Member that is also a Block Lexical Scope for the Building Block it aggregates: it relates its aggregated block by nesting (see Nesting Relationship).Hierarchical Members are used to build hierarchical structures of Building Blocks, in constrast to Block Members which are used to build network structures of Building Blocks.
Block Member	[*..0]	Building Block	Aggregate Block	A Block Member is an Aggregate Member that aggregates its releated Building Block by reference (see Referencing Relationship).Block Members are used to build network structures of Building Blocks while Hierarchical Members are used to build hierarchical structures of Building Blocks.

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