Supporting (secondary) information assets are software, hardware, physical infrastructure such as server rooms or other facilities, people and purchased services.
This means all information and communication technologies, sites or services on which primary assets depend. In other words, if a supporting asset fails, the primary asset is also unavailable.
- Supporting assets are supposed to support primary assets
- Supporting assets contribute to the security of the information system
Catalog of Supporting Assets
- You can maintain a catalogue of support assets in Aptien
- To comply with NIS2 you have to keep track of the dependencies between supporting and primary assets
- This is in order to be able to assess what primary assets are affected when a particular supporting asset is unavailable