In plain English
This phrase points to the source of access rather than the thing being accessed. It identifies where a person or process came from when it reached or used something, whether that source was a place, network, device, or system.
In context
In a login history entry, it names the place or device source from which the account was reached or used.
- Situation
- Checking sessions, devices, login history, and unusual access activity
- What it communicates
- introduces the place or device source in a login history entry
Meaning limits
By itself, it identifies only the source of the access and does not establish who initiated it or whether the activity was expected.
Examples
“The archive was accessed from a library computer, not from the office server.”
“Yesterday's login history entry shows the account accessed from a phone on the home network.”