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active entity

MWEid 163597·updated Sep 1, 2026
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Composition

active+entity

Source

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NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
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e0172
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dorianc@moxywolf.com
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ManualCuration
control access between active entities or subjects (i.e., users orthe sentence this term was read in
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generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: term of art.

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A participant in an access control model — specifically one that "causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state" — distinguished from a passive entity (object) by its capacity to *initiate* rather than merely receive or hold. Access control mechanisms grant or revoke privileges for active entities (subjects) to access or perform actions on passive entities (objects). An active entity is one that seeks rights to a resource or object, and may be a person, a program, or a process. The designation is relative to a specific access control decision point: in a chain of operations, an entity can be an object in one transaction and immediately become the subject — i.e., the active entity — in the very next transaction it initiates.

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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.

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