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Asset Management

What is Asset Management?

The systematic process of identifying, classifying, tracking, and managing an organization's information assets throughout their lifecycle to ensure proper protection.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as asset management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on asset management

Requirements naming asset management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

ISO 55001:20144 controls

Requirement defined in ISO 55001:2014, clause 4.4 (Asset management system). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.

iso-55001-2014::4.4 · Asset management system

HKMA C-RAF Domain 1 GOVERNANCE + Domain 2 IDENTIFICATION. DOMAIN 1 GOVERNANCE (5 sub-areas): (1) CYBER RISK GOVERNANCE - board + senior management oversight + governance structure + reporting lines + delegation; board cyber-risk literacy + training;

HKMA-CRAF-Domain1-2-Governance-Identification · HKMA C-RAF Domain 1 (Governance) + Domain 2 (Identification) - Cyber Strategy, Risk Management, Asset Management, Threat Assessment

Implement written policies and procedures for asset inventory tracking (hardware, software, and data including end-of-life), and for secure disposal of Nonpublic Information that is no longer necessary for business operations or other legitimate purposes (exce...

§500.13 · Asset Management and Data Retention Requirements

Maintain a centralised asset management system covering hardware, software and data inventories for visibility of critical assets.

ASIC-CR-AM-1 · Centralised asset management system

Limit user access to asset management features so assets cannot be modified accidentally or maliciously.

ASBv3-AM-4 · Limit access to asset management

Asset management and data flow mapping. Implements CyFun ID.AM-3 / ID.AM-4: organisational communication and data flows are mapped and external information systems are catalogued.

BE-CF-33 · Asset management and data flow mapping

Questions people ask about asset management

What is Asset Management?
The systematic process of identifying, classifying, tracking, and managing an organization's information assets throughout their lifecycle to ensure proper protection.
Why is Asset Management important for compliance?
Asset Management is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding asset management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Asset Management?
Asset Management appears in the requirement text of ISO 55001:2014, HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500, ASIC Cyber Resilience Good Practices, Azure Security Benchmark. Across these standards we have identified 11 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Asset Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how asset management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Asset Management applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.