Critical Assets Terminology

Contact: Contact is the person identified by an organization to notify on critical events, threat alerts, incidents, tasks, etc., through the Z suite application. Example: Employee, Customer, Supplier, Vendor, or Contractor.

Facilities: Facilities are premises like office buildings, schools, hospitals, hotels, laboratories, government institutions, etc., that hosts people, systems, data, etc.,

Equipment: Equipment means all kinds of machines or apparatus or appliances such as mechanical, electrical, electronic fabrication used for the operations or maintenance.

Supply chain: A supply chain encompasses everything from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer through to its eventual delivery to the end user.

IT CMDB: An IT Configuration Management Database is a database used to store IT asset information essential for an organization’s IT service management (ITSM). Example: Hardware, Software, Network, Voice, Data Systems, etc.,