Asset Security and Risk Management: A Case Study of CDU Systems

Running head: ASSET SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Asset Security and Risk Management: A Case Study of CDU (Charles Darwin
University) systems
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1ASSET SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Identification of assets and risks......................................................................................................2
Asset Identification......................................................................................................................2
Risk Identification.......................................................................................................................4
Recommendations............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................8

2ASSET SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Introduction
Asset security and risk management are referred to as a very important mechanism for
any university to secure their credential from the external attackers (Layton 2016). It has been
identified that due to lack of managerial and functional operations the Charles Darwin University
is facing huge risks and the risks associated to the University are elaborated in this. On the other
hand, students and employee’s credentials are the most important asset for the University that
should keep safe and secured. The categories of the assets, details of the assets, their type and
owners are demonstrated in this report addition to possible treatments for all the identified risks.
Identification of assets and risks
Asset Identification
The assets has been categorized into main categories in context to CDU (Charles Darwin
University) as Equipment and Information. The assets identified are provided in the list as
below:
S No. Asset
Category Asset Details Asset
Type
Asset
Owner Comments
1
Equipment Violation of operating
procedures
Internal Operations The equipment
can be damaged
if the operating
principles of the
equipment are
violated
2
Equipment Malfunctioning of
software/hardware
Internal IT
Department
The software or
hardware may
malfunction thus
leading to faults
in the equipment
3 Equipment Theft of equipment External Resource
manager
There may be
loss of equipment
due to theft
which in turn