Life-cycle support is an aspect of establishing discipline and control in the processes of refinement of the TOE during its development and maintenance. Confidence in the correspondence between the TOE security requirements and the TOE is greater if security analysis and the production of the evidence are done on a regular basis as an integral part of the development and maintenance activities.
Figure 12.1 shows the families within this class, and the hierarchy of components within the families.
Figure 12.1 - Life-cycle support class decomposition