Information Asset Profiling
The steadily increasing technical and environmental complexity of today's globally networked economy presents many obstacles to organizations as they attempt to protect their information assets. Information assets are constantly processed and combined to form new information assets. The line between ownership and custodianship of information assets blurs as information freely flows throughout an organization and often crosses outside organizational boundaries to other entities such as partners, customers, and suppliers. The CERT Survivable Enterprise Management group at the Software Engineering Institute developed the Information Asset Profiling (IAP) process as a tool to help organizations begin to address these security challenges.
The authors describe IAP, a documented and repeatable process for developing consistent asset profiles. They also explain how the development of an information asset inventory using the IAP process provides a strong basis for organizations to begin to identify and address their information security needs.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Security and SurvivabilityTechnical Note
CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021
June 2005
Cite This Report
SEI:
Stevens, James; Information Asset Profiling (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn021.cfm
IEEE:
J. Stevens, "Information Asset Profiling," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn021.cfm
APA:
Stevens, J., (2005). Information Asset Profiling (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021). Retrieved May 22, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn021.cfm
CHI:
Stevens, James, Information Asset Profiling (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn021.cfm
MLA:
Stevens, J., 2005. Information Asset Profiling (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2005-TN-021). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn021.cfm
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