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¶ … assets an organization owns and manages. It will also look at the process and effectiveness of creating organizations' inventory with the main aim of having an effective daily system management and to for security of the organizations' assets. It is imperative that an organization has the records of all of it assets.
One of the most fundamental steps in IT management and IT security understands what physical and virtual IT assets an organization owns and manages. A good inventory provides information that is useful to daily system management, business office asset tracking, and security incident response.
Mark, (2000) 'An information Asset is a definable piece of information, stored in a manner which is recognized as 'valuable' to the organization.' For the case of the IT organization, the Information asset that exist include assets that hold a lot of value to the organization and cannot be easily replaced, without cost, skill, time, resources, or a combination. In that case I would to mention the following as the information assets in the organization; customer service information platform, product information platform, service information platform, product information templates and data base, service information templates, automated data analysis, tracking information, custom information dashboard, process database, project status information dash board, data capture meetings, cross-department information compilation, cross- department information exchange...
Threats can be non-malicious, through human error, hardware/software failures or natural disasters. 'Malicious threats on the other hand, fall in the category from being rational (obtaining something of value at no cost) to irrational (destroying crucial information or destroying some one's reputation). A threat does not necessarily cause harm.' (Mark, 2000)
For people, the threat involved may include authorized viewing of sensitive information by intruders or people who have the legitimacy coming across a variety of mechanism, misrouted electronic mail, printer output, mis-configured access control lists etc. People could pose security threat to the organizations' assets if use information assets for other functions other than the authorized purposes.
'The results of such acts are denial of service, increased cost, or damage to reputations. As for both software and hardware, the threat may component failure, which is failure due to design flaws, or hardware/software faults can lead to denial of service or security, compromises through the malfunction of a system component. False rejections of firewall by authorization server are an example of failures that affect security.' (Mark, 2000)
For database, the threats…
Works Cited
Mark, R. (2000) Risk Management; New York: McGraw -- Hill
Wireman, T, (2006) Production Spare Parts: Optimizing the Inventory Asset; New York; Industrial Press
Wireman, T, (2007) Maintenance strategy: Columbia: Industrial Press, Inc.
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