The organization should establish and implement procedures to safeguard intellectual property rights, ensuring compliance with legal, statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements concerning intellectual property and the use of proprietary products. Asset registers should be maintained, identifying assets subject to intellectual property protection. Proof of ownership, including licenses and manuals, should be documented.
Installing commercially licensed software can cause a breach of the licence terms for the software. Organisation should have a procedure for identifying licensing requirements for before permitting any licensed software to be installed.
Particular attention should be paid to cases where the data system is elastic and scalable and can be run on more systems or processor cores than is permitted by the licence terms.