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information asset

nounid 2857·updated May 9, 2026
verified

Data and the associated software and infrastructure used to process, transmit, and store information or to produce, manufacture, or distribute products.

MWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
information assets
possessive
information asset's
pluralpossessive
information assets'

Framework definitions

CPMI-IOSCO Guidance on Cyber Resilience for Financial Market Infrastructures1 senseview framework →
§1
Any piece of data, device or other component of the environment that supports information-related activities. In the context of this report, information assets include data, hardware and software.25 Information assets are not limited to those that are owned by the entity. They also include those that are rented or leased, and those that are used by service providers to deliver their services.
TSP Section 1001 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
Data and the associated software and infrastructure used to process, transmit, and store information or to produce, manufacture, or distribute products.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Any piece of data, device or other component of the environment that supports information-related activities. In the context of this report, information assets include data, hardware and software.25 Information assets are not limited to those that are owned by the entity. They also include those that are rented or leased, and those that are used by service providers to deliver their services.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

broaderPartitive