After inputting your Business Entities and importing the necessary Contacts, another key piece of data you input into RM Studio is the Asset Registry. Assets are anything that has value, tangible or intangible items that bring value to the organization. An Asset can be as general as “Headquarters Building” or as specific as “HP Server, XpV_2831”. In RM Studio you define your own assets, but remember to only include assets within the scope of your risk management projects. In the Risk Assessment the Assets are selected from the Asset Registry and the Risks are applied based on the predetermined mapping of the Threats to Asset Categories. When you create a new asset you must select the Asset Categories for the asset establish the link to the default threats (you can import new threats or edit the IT threat library and the mapping to Categories, as you need). The release of v5.4 provides a new way to organize the Assets under specific Business Entities, as well as group according to Asset Categories. 4.5.Assets
How to: Create a Common Asset
in the Asset List Toolbar.
Asset Details – Basic Information
Asset Details – Categories
button to open the popup with the Categories list.
If you can’t find the appropriate Category or Sub Category, go to Categories under the Common entities and add the new categories or sub-categories you require. Remember to link the new Categories to the relevant threats.
Alternatively, you can use the Edit icon
to add the Categories to the Asset or to change Categories at a later time if you need to. The
function uses check boxes for selecting the Categories and there is no need to hold the ‘Ctrl‘ key when selecting more than one Category for the asset.
Asset Details – Business Entities