Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Asset
An asset may be intangible (e.g., humans, data, software, information, capability, function, trademark, service, copyright, image, patent, intellectual property, or reputation) or tangible (for instance, a physical item such as hardware, computing platform, firmware, network device, or other technology components). The value of an asset is decided by stakeholders in case of an event of loss concerns across the entire system life cycle.
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