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The kind of enterprise asset a Safeguard of the CIS Controls is about.

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Asset class

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CIS’s page on its guide to the asset classes says that CIS restructured the asset classes and their definitions in Version 8.1.1 The guide names six classes: Devices, Software, Data, Users, Network and Documentation. It divides each into subclasses and gives each Safeguard one class.2 The schema renders the classes as CisAssetClass, with upper-case values such as DEVICES and CIS’s spelling as each value’s title. A Safeguard names its class in safeguard_asset_class. The schema leaves the subclasses out.3

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  1. https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/white-papers/guide-to-asset-classes-cis-critical-security-controls-v8-1, the page’s summary ↩

  2. https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8-1, the guide this page offers, the section on asset classes ↩

  3. src/cis_controls/schema/cis_controls.yaml, the enum CisAssetClass ↩