An  Assurance Case is a claim that a particular enterprise asset or group of Functional Asset adequately mitigates certain identified Risk Types by means of appropriated Control Measures.

An  Assurance Case shall provide confidence that the concerned assets will function as intended in their environment of use.

Privacy Processing Activity(ies), Data Lineages are examples of  Assurance Cases .

An  Assurance Instrument is a resource or course of actions used by an Assurance System to achieve its objectives.

For instance:

Actions plans are course of actions aimed at solving incidents.

Data Controls are mechanisms used to ensure data quality and data integrity

Privacy Representatives are used to identify national entities in charge of privacy.

A  Governance Event is any event that has an impact on the management and governance of an Enduring Initiative.

This includes the result of Assessments, Decisions, recorded Incidents, Drivers, etc.

A  Management System is a mezzo Enduring Initiative within an Enterprise, aimed at creating, maintaining, evaluating, evolving, and operating a collection of essential  Functional Architecture Assets of the Enterprise.

A  Management System may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently requires an integrated team working under the direction of a Management Initiative Committee.

A  Policy is a Directive that is not directly enforceable whose purpose is to govern, guide or constrain the structure and Behavior Type of Agent Types in the enterprise.

Policies provide the basis for rules and govern Behavior Types carried out by Agent Types.

Example of Policys are Regulation Articles, Business Policys or Architecture principles.

A  Policy Framework is a set of Policy Assets, defined in laws published by governements or in policy frameworks defined by the enterprise.

Both Business Policy Frameworks and Regulatory Frameworks are Policy Framework(ies).

A  Resource Action Process is a Action Process Type that describes a typical course of action intended to produce and react to Resource Outcome Events, through the involvement of Resource Agent Types (Participant Resource Agent).

During its course of action, a  Resource Action Process consumes or produces Resource Assets.

1) It may memorize or access Resource Assets to and from its Process Stores.

2) It may receive Resource Assets at its boundary: Resource Outcome Consumptions.

3) It may signal the production of Resource Assets at its boundary: Resource Outcome Productions.

The course of actions of an  Resource Action Process is constrained by the application of rules ( Resource Rule Enforcement) that define what is allowed and not allowed to do.

Within  SysFEAT, we can examine  Resource Action Processes from two distinct perspectives:

a) An operations business perspective is offered by Business Processes.

c) An automated viewpoint is provided by System Processes.

A  Resource Agent Type is an entity type which instance belongs to the physical space, and comprises Human Agent Categorys, Hardware System Categorys, Software System Categorys and Natural Resource Categorys.

 Resource Agent Type is the supertype of all types of Agent Types that produce and react to Resource Outcome Events.

This includes:

1) Business Agent Types which represent  physical resources that produce and react to Business Outcome Events of the enterprise.

2) Technology Systems which represents enabling systems that produce and react to  Technology Outcome Events.

 Resource Operating Assets comprise all resources which contributes to the production and consumption of Business Outcome Events of the enterprise.

 Resource Operating Assets are subject to Operational Risks.

A  Risk Type is a distinct category or classification of risk based on its origin, nature, or potential impact. It helps in organizing and addressing different sources of uncertainty or potential harm that an individual, organization, or system might face. By categorizing risks into different types, entities can develop more targeted mitigation strategies and response plans.

Common risk types include Operational Risk Type, Privacy Risk Type, and Compliance Risk Type, among others,

A  Control Directive is a kind of Policy that provides recommendations on how to comply with Regulation Articles.

Once implemented,  Control Directives enforces any  Regulatory Framework your enterprise has to comply with.