CHAPTER 4

Information Assets and Impacts

The organization’s information-related assets together with the systems and networks that underpin them are key to the ongoing ability of all organizations to operate successfully, and therefore a detailed understanding of these assets is required in order to carry out a risk assessment prior to introducing measures to prevent or reduce cybersecurity-related business continuity problems. This chapter will describe how an organization may identify these and make a meaningful estimate of their value to the business.

All of these assets can be negatively impacted by cybersecurity issues in one form or another, so we shall then examine the kinds of impact that are likely to arise if the assets are attacked ...

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