entity

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-001569",
  "term": "entity",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. An individual (person), organization, device or process. Used interchangeably with “party.”\n\n2. An individual (person), organization, device, or process. Used interchangeably with “entity.”\n\n3. An individual person, organization, device, or process. In this specification, there are two parties (e.g., Party A and Party B, or Alice and Bob) who jointly perform the key establishment process using a KEM.\n\n4. An individual person, organization, device, or process. Used interchangeably with party.\n\n5. An individual person, organization, device, or process. Used interchangeably with “entity.”\n\n6. An individual (person), organization, device, or process. Used interchangeably with party.\n\n7. Organization entering into an agreement.\n\n8. An individual (person), organization, device or process. Used interchangeably with “party”.\n\n9. An individual (person), organization, device or process. Used interchangeably with “entity”.\n\n10. See Information System User\n\n11. An individual (person), organization, device, or process.\n\n12. An FCKMS role that utilizes the key-management services offered by an FCKMS service provider.\n\n13. An individual (person), organization, device, or process. “Party” is a synonym.\n\n14. An individual (person), organization, device or process.\n\n15. A human (person/individual/user), organization, device or process.\n\n16. See Entity.\n\n17. A human entity.\n\n18. An individual (person). Also see Entity.\n\n19. A person, device, service, network, domain, manufacturer, or other party who might interact with an IoT device.\n\n20. An individual (person), organization, device, or process; used interchangeably with “party.”\n\n21. An individual (person), organization, device, or a combination thereof. In this Recommendation, an entity may be a functional unit that executes certain processes.\n\n22. An item inside or outside an information and communication technology system, such as a person, an organization, a device, a subsystem, or a group of such items that has recognizably distinct existence.\n\n23. An individual (person), organization, device, or process. In this recommendation, there are typically two parties (e.g., Party A and Party B, Alice and Bob) that jointly perform the key-establishment process using a KEM.\n\n24. Person who interacts with the product.\n\n25. item inside or outside an information and communication technology system, such as a person, an organization, a device, a subsystem, or a group of such items that has recognizably distinct existence\n\n26. An individual, group or an organization participating in an action.\n\n27. A person, organization, or other entity which requests access to and uses the resources of a computer system or network.\n\n28. The entity, human or machine, that is identified by the userID, authenticated prior to system access, the subject of all access control decisions, and held accountable via the audit reporting system.\n\n29. the set of people, both trusted (e.g., administrators) and untrusted, who use the system.\n\n30. A consumer of the services offered by an RP.\n\n31. A person, team, or organization that accesses or otherwise uses an OLIR.",
  "synonyms": [
    "party",
    "User"
  ],
  "references": [
    "FIPS 186-5",
    "FIPS 186-5; FIPS 205 from FIPS 186-5",
    "FIPS 203",
    "FIPS 204",
    "FIPS 205",
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015",
    "NIST SP 800-102; NIST SP 800-89",
    "NIST SP 800-128",
    "NIST SP 800-152; NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1",
    "NIST SP 800-152",
    "NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 2",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-175A",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1",
    "NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-152; NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-213; NISTIR 8259A; NISTIR 8259B",
    "NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2",
    "NIST SP 800-108r1 [August 2022 (Includes updates as of 02-02-2024)]",
    "NIST SP 800-188",
    "NIST SP 800-227",
    "NISTIR 8040",
    "NISTIR 8053",
    "NISTIR 4734",
    "NISTIR 5153",
    "NISTIR 6192",
    "NISTIR 8149",
    "NIST IR 8278Ar1; NIST IR 8278r1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/entity/"
}