It just came up recently while discussing with one of my friend, the need for capturing service assets as a part of asset inventory which will be used further for risk assessment exercise.
In a normal scenario, everyone uses a template that captures assests under different cateogories, viz
- Information Asset – deals with electronic and paper based data
- Hardware Asset – includes all your hardware, cupboards, safe, etc
- Software Asset – includes all software’s used or implemented in the organization.
- Service Asset – services that a department avails from the organization
- People Asset – talks about people / employees
Now the discussion went like this: