Critical system

Not to be confused with Safety-critical system.

A critical system is a system which must be highly reliable and retain this reliability as it evolves without incurring prohibitive costs.[1]

There are four types of critical systems: safety critical, mission critical, business critical and security critical.[1]

  1. ^ a b Hinchey, Mike; Coyle, Lorcan (2010). "Evolving Critical Systems: A Research Agenda for Computer-Based Systems". 2010 17th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer Based Systems. pp. 430–435. doi:10.1109/ECBS.2010.56. hdl:10344/2085. ISBN 978-1-4244-6537-8. S2CID 17986471.