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I work for a 27 employees software company with remote workers. I’m having a few difficulties defining the asset register and would appreciate your view. We are using the Asset type of “Internally developed software” to encompass all software products we build for sale. However, we have several software products. Some are sold to customers for on-premise installation and use, whilst others are SAAS products residing in the Azure cloud (within our control). Additionally, we could partition our software into further categories or even individual products where they have different risks/vulnerabilities. 1 - My question is, how granular should we get? 2 - Would an auditor need to assess individual product risks because one product uses more 3rd party service than another?
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Rhand Leal Feb 21, 2022

1 - My question is, how granular should we get? 

ISO 27001 does not prescribe any level of detail for the inventory of assets, so you can adopt the levels you understand that will better fulfill your needs.

This is generally a balance between the administrative effort and the need for information to ensure proper security. For example, you do not need to record organizations laptops as individual assets (you can add a single asset called "laptop"), but if they have specific purposes with different risk levels you can use specific assets like "laptop", "development laptop", and "finance laptop". The same concept applies to developed systems and other assets. 

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2 - Would an auditor need to assess individual product risks because one product uses more 3rd party service than another?

Please note that the auditor does not assess risks, he only checks if risks are being assessed properly.

Considering that, in case the auditor identifies this situation where one product uses more 3rd party service than another, he may want to check if the risks related to this product are assessed properly.

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