The functional entity responsible for initiating a particular access attempt.
Note: An access attempt can be initiated by a source user, a destination user, or the telecommunications system.

The steps required to obtain the use of a system or device.
Note: Examples of access paths are (a) the operations required of a database management system to obtain access to a database and (b) the sequence of steps required to reach a file. [From Weik '96]

In security, a segment of time, generally expressed in days or weeks, during which specified access rights prevail. [INFOSEC-99]

All of a subject's access rights with respect to some object. [2382-pt.8]

In an information-transfer transaction, the phase during which an access attempt is made.
Note: The access phase is the first phase of an information-transfer transaction.

1. A point where connections may be made for testing or using particular communications circuits.
2. In telephony, a junction point in outside plant consisting of a splice at a junction between a branch feeder cable and distribution cables.

1. In security, a profile that associates each user with a list of protected objects that the user may access.
2. [An itemization that] associates each user with a list of protected objects the user may access. [INFOSEC-99]

1. An organization that provides users with access to a computer network. [2385-35]
2. A party responsible for traffic originating and terminating in jurisdictional areas defined by regulatory agencies. [T1.246-1998]

1. A control message issued by an access originator for the purpose of initiating an access attempt.
2. A signal sent to a network for the purpose of initiating the establishment of a network connection. In this definition, a signal may take the form of a message. [T1.507-1996]

1. Permission for a subject to access a particular object for a specific type of operation.
Note: An example of an access right is the permission for a process to read a file but not write to it. [2382-pt.8]
2. Authorization of access. Notes: [a] Access rights may be more or less explicit, both in the granularity of definition of… (Read More →)