Sample Configuration Management

Sample Configuration Management

Configuration Management is a complex Technical Management model that sits in the realm of Information Management. It focuses on establishing and maintaining
consistency of a product’s performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.
For information assurance, CM can be defined as the management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software,
firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures, and test documentation throughout the life cycle of an information system.

Configuration Management Activities

The view on configuration management in this book is process oriented. Therefore, the definition includes activity areas, which can be described in terms of process
descriptions.

The activity areas described in detail in the following paragraphs are identification, storage, change control, and status reporting.

Configuration management has many interactions with other development and support processes.