resource

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003560",
  "term": "resource",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. An entity to be protected from unauthorized use.\n\n2. Asset used or consumed during the execution of a process.\n\n3. A device, data element, or file for which access is requested. Also known as protected resource and as an object.\n\n4. A passive entity that contains or receives information. Note that access to an object potentially implies access to the information it contains.\n\n5. 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\n6. 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\n7. 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.",
  "synonyms": [
    "object"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-162",
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015",
    "CNSSI 4009-2022 from XACML 3.0 (adapted)",
    "NIST SP 800-33 [Withdrawn]; NIST SP 800-27 Rev. A [Withdrawn]",
    "CNSSI 4009-2015 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4; CNSSI 4009-2022 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 (adapted)",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5",
    "NISTIR 5153",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/resource/"
}