object

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-002899",
  "term": "object",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. Passive system-related entity, including bits, bytes, words, fields, devices, files, records, programs, tables, processes, programs, segments, directories, processors, and domains that contain or receive information. Access to an object (by a subject) implies access to the information it contains. Note: Sometimes referred to as \"resource.\"\n\n2. Passive system-related entity, including devices, files, records, tables, processes, programs, and domains that contain or receive information. Access to an object (by a subject) implies access to the information it contains. See subject.\n\n3. An entity to be protected from unauthorized use.\n\n4. An operating system abstraction that is visible at the application program interface, has a unique name, and capable of being shared. In this document, the following are resources: files, programs, directories, databases, mini-disks, and special files. In this document, the following are not resources: records, blocks, pages, segments, bits, bytes, words, fields, and processors.\n\n5. the set of passive entities within the system, protected from unauthorized use.\n\n6. A passive entity that contains or receives information.\n\n7. See Object, Assessment.\n\n8. Assessment objects identify the specific items being assessed, and as such, can have one or more security defects. Assessment objects include specifications, mechanisms, activities, and individuals which in turn may include, but are not limited to, devices, software products, software executables, credentials, accounts, account-privileges, things to which privileges are granted (including data and physical facilities), etc. See SP 800-53A.",
  "synonyms": [
    "Object, Assessment"
  ],
  "references": [
    "CNSSI 4009-2022 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 (adapted)",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-162",
    "NISTIR 5153",
    "NISTIR 6192",
    "NISTIR 7316",
    "NISTIR 8011 Vol. 1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/object/"
}