Requester

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003546",
  "term": "Requester",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. The entity requesting to perform an operation upon the object.\n\n2. A person, organization, device, hardware, network, software, or service. In these guidelines, a subject is a natural person.\n\n3. The entity (person or organization) that wishes to make use of a provider’s Web service. It will use a requester agent to exchange messages with the provider’s provider agent. “Requester” is also used as a shorthand to refer to the requester agent acting on the requester’s behalf.\n\n4. An active entity, generally in the form of a person, process, or device, that causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state.\n\n5. Generally an individual, process, or device causing information to flow among objects or change to the system state. See object.\n\n6. An individual, process, or device that causes information to flow among objects or change to the system state. Also see object.",
  "synonyms": [
    "subject"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-162",
    "NIST SP 800-63-4; NIST SP 800-63A-4",
    "NIST SP 800-95 from Web Services Architecture - W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004",
    "NIST SP 800-33 [Withdrawn]; NIST SP 800-27 Rev. A [Withdrawn]",
    "CNSSI 4009-2015 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/requester/"
}