DCS-05 Assets Classification
Classify physical and logical assets by the business risk they carry, and record the classification.
4
artefacts
0
held by a system
3
at each review
hard
to go live
Data governance / DLP tooling
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Asset records carrying a classification value · Data governance / DLP tooling
- Coverage evidence across both physical and logical assets · Physical access / facilities
- Review record showing classifications are revisited · Data governance / DLP tooling
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- The asset classification scheme and its risk criteria · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Logical assets such as applications left unclassified while hardware is covered
- Classification assigned at onboarding and never revisited
- Scheme has levels but no criteria, so assignment is inconsistent
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetDCS-04 Secure Media Transportation Policy and Procedures · DCS-06 Assets Cataloguing and Tracking