Assets in the cloud
When developing the policy for our inventory of assets, the question came up around how do we inventory ephemeral assets in the cloud? Some servers are spun up when the extra compute is needed, then they are torn down automatically and are gone. Do we need to account for those somehow as well?
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ISO 22301 DOCUMENTATION TOOLKIT
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ISO 22301 DOCUMENTATION TOOLKIT
Step-by-step implementation for smaller companies.
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ISO 22301 DOCUMENTATION TOOLKIT
Step-by-step implementation for smaller companies.
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If I understood correctly, you are talking about variations in the available capacity of a virtual server in the cloud. In this case, you do not need to take into account this variation in the asset register, only the server as a logical unit.
For example, if you have a database server in the cloud, in your asset register you can record it as "cloud database server". This way, by the very nature of cloud working, you do not need to take into account configuration related to its required capacity.
This article will provide you further explanation about asset register:
- How to handle Asset register (Asset inventory) according to ISO 27001 https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-handle-asset-register-asset-inventory-according-to-iso-27001/
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Nov 28, 2019