The organization shall list all relevant protected assets to determine ownership and to ensure that security measures cover all necessary items.
A large portion of the protected assets (including data sets, data systems, personnel / units, and partners) are treated through other tasks. In addition, the organization must list other important assets, which may be, depending on the nature of its operations, e.g. hardware (servers, network equipment, workstations, printers) or infrastructure (real estate, power generation, air conditioning). In addition the organization should make sure that relevant external devices are documented.