Risk Assessments in Conformio

1. Can assets be put in a hierarchy, so that filing cabinets can be seen as part of an office building, or firewall as part of a server? I think this would have benefits for overview and determining potentially assets affected by incidents related to other assets below or above in the hierarchy. I'm not sure whether this makes sense from a Risk Management perspective.

While this functionality would be interesting, it is not currently available in Conformio because it is not required by the standard (even the guidelines from ISO 27002 for ISO 27001 Annex A control A.8.1.1 Inventory of assets do not mention this), and the building of such hierarchy would mean a whole module by itself (it is a whole discipline of ITIL and ISO 20000 - Service Asset and Configuration Management).

For further information, see:

• Knowing your herd – Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) https://advisera.com/20000academy/blog/2013/06/04/knowing-herd-service-asset-configuration-management-sacm/

2. I see the same vulnerabilities for different assets, like inadequate change control for laws, regulations, etc but also for policies, procedures and work instructions. Is there a way to optimize this and to reduce the number of vulnerabilities?

Please note that a single vulnerability may impact different assets like in the example you provided, but it is not mandatory to associate that vulnerability for all listed assets. These relations are only suggestions provided to help you perform risk assessment, so you can decide to not select the vulnerability for some assets.

For further information, see:

• ISO 27001 risk assessment: How to match assets, threats and vulnerabilities https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/iso-27001-risk-assessment-how-to-match-assets-threats-and-vulnerabilities/