attribute

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000290",
  "term": "attribute",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. Characteristic or property of an entity that can be used to describe its state, appearance, or other aspect.\n\n2. A quality or characteristic ascribed to someone or something. An identity attribute is an attribute about the identity of a subscriber (e.g., name, date of birth, address).\n\n3. An attribute is any distinctive feature, characteristic, or property of an object that can be identified or isolated quantitatively or qualitatively by either human or automated means.\n\n4. A distinct characteristic of an object often specified in terms of their physical traits, such as size, shape, weight, and color, etc., for real -world objects. Objects in cyberspace might have attributes describing size, type of encoding, network address, etc.\n\n5. A quality or characteristic ascribed to someone or something.\n\n6. characteristic or property of an entity that can be used to describe its state, appearance, or other aspect\n\n7. A property or characteristic of a computing product. CPE 2.2 commonly used the term “component” instead of “attribute”. CPE 2.3 uses the term “attribute” to clarify the distinction between CPE:2.2 name “components” and computing components, such as software modules. Examples of CPE:2.3 attributes are part, vendor, product, and version. CPE attributes and their value constraints are defined in the CPE Naming specification [CPE23-N:5.2, 5.3].\n\n8. Information associated with a key that is not used in cryptographic algorithms, but is required to implement applications and applications protocols.\n\n9. See Attribute\n\n10. A claim of a named quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something. (See term in [ICAM] for more information.)",
  "synonyms": [
    "Key attribute"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-188 from ISO/IEC 24760-1:2011",
    "NIST SP 800-63-4; NIST SP 800-63A-4",
    "CNSSI 4009-2015 from ISO/IEC 27000",
    "NIST SP 800-95 from Web Services Glossary - W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004",
    "NIST SP 800-63-3 [Superseded]",
    "NISTIR 8053 from ISO/IEC 24760-1:2011",
    "NISTIR 7696",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 3 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-63-2 [Superseded]",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/attribute/"
}