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IAM

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Entity

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An active agent capable of initiating operations on the information system.

An entity may be external to the information system or a component of the information system.

An entity may initiate operations on other entities. (e.g. a person modifying the configuration of a batch process).

Samples:

  • a person (user)

  • an object (IoT)

  • a running software (service, batch, daemon, process, thread)

  • a network device

  • a system or application

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