Definitions[]
Business[]
An agent is
| “ | a person who is authorized to act on behalf of another (the "principal") to create a legal relationship with a third party. | ” |
Computer systems[]
In the client-server model, the agent is
| “ | the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server application.[1] | ” |
Cybercrime[]
An agent is
| “ | [a] program used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that sends malicious traffic to hosts based on the instructions of a handler."[2] | ” |
General[]
An agent is
| “ | a person who is authorized act on behalf of a principal and to enter into contracts to which the principal will be bound. | ” |
Intelligence[]
An agent is
| “ | one who is authorized or instructed to obtain or to assist in obtaining information for intelligence or counterintelligence purposes.[3] | ” |
| “ | one who is recruited, trained, controlled and employed to obtain and report information.[4] | ” |
| “ | a person who engages in clandestine intelligence activities under the direction of an intelligence organization, but is not an officer, employee, or co-opted worker of that organization.[5] | ” |
Military[]
An agent is "[a] person who engages in a clandestine activity."[6]
Software[]
An agent is "a program acting on behalf of a person or organization."[7]
See also Software agent.
Virtual reality[]
An agent is
| “ | a software program that can carry out fairly sophisticated tasks in unknown networked environments without human intervention; in other words a "smart" bot.[8] | ” |
References[]
- ↑ RFC 1392, Internet Glossary (Jan. 1993).
- ↑ NIST, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide, Glossary, at D-1 (NIST Special Publication 800-61, rev. 1) (Mar. 2008) (full-text).
- ↑ Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, at 4.
- ↑ NATO Standardization Agency, NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions 2-A-5 (2008) (full-text).
- ↑ National HUMINT Glossary.
- ↑ OPSEC Glossary of Terms (full-text).
- ↑ Web Services Glossary (Nov. 2, 2004).
- ↑ Consolidated List of Glossary Terms.
See also[]
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