What does Asset Management (ID.AM) cover in the NIST CSF?
- A.Managing marketing assets and brand materials, which rests on the claim that asset criticality is fixed at procurement and never reassessed
- B.Inventorying and managing the data, personnel, devices, systems, and facilities that enable the organization to achieve business purposes
- C.Managing physical office assets like furniture, reasoning that asset inventories under ID.AM exclude cloud services and SaaS subscriptions by definition
- D.Managing financial assets and investments
Why B is correct
Asset Management ensures the organization identifies and manages all physical and software assets, data flows, and external systems to support cybersecurity risk management decisions.
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