Proxy

If you own common stock in a US corporation, you have the right to vote on certain company policies and elect the board of directors by casting a proxy, or vote.

You may vote in person at the annual meeting, by phone, or online.

The instrument authorizing one person to represent, act, and vote for another at a shareholders' meeting of a corporation.

a substitute. Paleoclimatologists use proxy evidence in place of direct climate measurements for times before instrumental measurements were made. Properties of ocean sediments, glacial ice, and tree rings can all be used as proxies for past climate conditions.

A proxy is an application that breaks the connection between client and server. The proxy accepts certain types of traffic entering or leaving a network and processes it and forwards it. This effectively closes the straight path between the internal and external networks. Making it more difficult for an attacker to obtain internal addresses and other details of the organizations internal network. Proxy servers are available for common Internet services; for example, an Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy used for Web access, and an Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) proxy used for e-mail.

1. See firewall. 2. [An] Application acting on behalf of another application or system in responding to protocol requests. [INFOSEC-99] 3. An entity in a system that acts on behalf of another entity in invoking some operation [ECMA138]