subject

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004109",
  "term": "subject",
  "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. 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\n4. A person, organization, device, hardware, network, software, or service.\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.\n\n7. the set of active entities of the system, operating within roles on behalf of individual users.",
  "synonyms": [
    "requestor"
  ],
  "see_also": [
    "object"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-162",
    "NIST SP 800-63-4; NIST SP 800-63A-4",
    "NIST SP 800-33 [Withdrawn]; NIST SP 800-27 Rev. A [Withdrawn]",
    "NIST SP 800-63-3 [Superseded]",
    "CNSSI 4009-2015 from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5",
    "NISTIR 6192",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/subject/"
}