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Summary

An Information Asset Register (IAR) is a simple way to help your understand and manage your organisation’s information assets and the risks to them. It is important to know and fully understand what information you hold in order to protect it and be able to exploit its potential.

Categories

The categories applicable to this standard are:

Information and Data Management
  • Data Lifecycle
  • Data Governance

Purpose

An Information Asset Register lists all the department’s information assets, it includes details of ownership, risks and value to the department.

How to meet this standard

What the Information Asset Owner (IAO) / Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) must do

  • Ensure an Information Asset Register entry for all Information Assets is compiled and maintained.
  • Assign Information Asset Owners (IAO), Information Asset Managers (IAMs) and Technical Point of Contact (TPoCs) to each information asset.
  • Ensure the half-yearly risk review is completed.

See the Single Commission SharePoint page (DfE Intranet) for details on how to apply this standard.

Declaring conformance with this standard

Conformance with the standard must be recorded every 6 months.

Owner and contacts

Standard owner
Saheel Sankriwala
Chief Technology and Data Officer
Other point of contact
DDT Standards
Team