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resource

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

object

Definitions:

  Passive information system-related entity (e.g., devices, files, records, tables, processes, programs, domains) containing or receiving information. Access to an object (by a subject) implies access to the information it contains. See subject.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 under object

  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.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 under object

  An entity to be protected from unauthorized use.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-162 under object

  Asset used or consumed during the execution of a process.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015

  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.
Sources:
NISTIR 5153 under Resource