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information asset

nounid 2857·updated May 9, 2026
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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.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Data72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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 →
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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.

Outgoing relationships

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

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.