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{{definition|An assets is a person, structure, facility, information, material, or process that has value. <ref name="DHSLex"> [http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/dhs-risk-lexicon-2010.pdf DHS Risk Lexicon 2010 Edition, September 2010]</ref>}}
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{{definition|An assets is a person, structure, facility, information, material, or process that has value. <ref name="DHSLex">[http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/dhs-risk-lexicon-2010.pdf DHS Risk Lexicon 2010 Edition, September 2010]</ref>}}<br />
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{{definition|A major application, general support system, high impact program, physical plant, mission critical system, personnel, equipment, or a logically related group of systems. <ref name="NISTIR7298"> [http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2013/NIST.IR.7298r2.pdf NISTIR 7298 rev 2: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, May 2013]</ref>}}<br />
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{{definition|A major application, general support system, high impact program, physical plant, mission critical system, personnel, equipment, or a logically related group of systems. <ref name="NISTIR7298">[http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2013/NIST.IR.7298r2.pdf NISTIR 7298 rev 2: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, May 2013]</ref>}}<br />
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{{definition|Something of value to an organization; typically, people, information, technology, and facilities that the critical services relies on.  <ref name="USCERT">[https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/c3vp/csc-crr-method-description-and-user-guide.pdf Cyber Resilience Review (CRR): Method Description and Self-Assessment User Guide (2016)]</ref>}} One of the foundational principles of the CRR design is the idea that an organization deploys its assets (i.e., people, information, technology, and facilities) to support specific operational missions. Failure in any of these assets may result in a cascading impact on related business processes, services, and the organization’s mission. <br />
  
 
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===Standard Definition===

Revision as of 09:39, 13 September 2017

Definitions

European Definitions

ENISA

Anything that has value to the organization, its business operations and their continuity, including Information resources that support the organization's mission. [1]


EU project

An asset is a CIP and CIP-related methodology, method, platform, test bed, infrastructure, research tool, technology, model, data source, report, and any other form of CIP- and modelling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) expertise. [2]



National Definitions

Canada

A person, structure, facility, information, material or process that has value.

Personne, structure, installation, information, matériel ou processus ayant de la valeur. [3]


Czech Republic

Cokoliv, co má hodnotu pro jednotlivce, organizaci nebo veřejnou správu. [4]

Anything that has value to an individual, company or public administration. [5]


Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Asset is a major application, general support system, high impact program, physical plant,mission critical system, personnel, equipment, or a logically related group of systems. [6]


United Arab Emirates

Asset: Any tangible or intangible value (people, property, information) to the organisation. [7]


United States

DHS
An assets is a person, structure, facility, information, material, or process that has value. [8]


NIST
A major application, general support system, high impact program, physical plant, mission critical system, personnel, equipment, or a logically related group of systems. [9]


US-CERT
Something of value to an organization; typically, people, information, technology, and facilities that the critical services relies on. [10]

One of the foundational principles of the CRR design is the idea that an organization deploys its assets (i.e., people, information, technology, and facilities) to support specific operational missions. Failure in any of these assets may result in a cascading impact on related business processes, services, and the organization’s mission.

Standard Definition

ISO/IEC 27000:2012

Anything that has value to the organization. [11]

This definition has been removed in the revised version of the standard in 2014. [12]

IETF

A system resource that is (a) required to be protected by an information system's security policy, (b) intended to be protected by a countermeasure, or (c) required for a system's mission. [13]


See also

Notes