subject

nounid 4267·updated May 9, 2026

candidate

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An active entity (generally an individual, process, or device) that causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state. See also Object.

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Identity85%rule-basedr:entity.identity.account.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: subjects
possessive: subject's
pluralpossessive: subjects'

Framework definitions

6 senses across 5 frameworks

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →

§1 · extended_definition_available: An individual, process, or device causing information to flow among objects or a change to the system state.

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →

§1: To bring under control or jurisdiction.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →

§1: Generally an individual, process, or device causing information to flow among objects or changes to the system state. See Object.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review: An active entity (generally an individual, process, or device) that causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state. See also Object.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

§1: An active entity (generally an individual, process, or device) that causes information to flow among objects or changes the system state. See also Object.

NIST SP 800-531 senseview framework →

§1: Generally an individual, process, or device causing information to flow among objects or changes to the system state. See Object.

Outgoing relationships

term as subject — 0 triples

No outgoing triples

This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

term as object — 1 triple

related: ←objectnoun