Certified: The CompTIA Security+ Audio Course
Jul 15, 2026 · 13 min · 11 segments
This episode introduces risk identification and assessment as the process of finding what could go wrong, what assets could be affected, and who needs to be involved in the decision. Students should…
Risk identification begins with noticing that an organization cannot protect everything equally if it does not know what everything is.
An asset is anything that has value to the organization and could be harmed, misused, lost, stolen, interrupted, or exposed.
Some assets are obvious, such as laptops, servers, cloud systems, network equipment, databases, buildings, and mobile devices.
Other assets are less visible, such as customer records, business processes, source code, employee knowledge, brand reputation, contracts, and the trust customers place in the organization.
If you only think of assets as physical objects, you miss much of what security is meant to protect.
A payroll system is an asset because people depend on it.
A customer database is an asset because it contains information the organization must protect.
A business process can be an asset because the organization may fail if that process stops.
Risk identification begins with noticing that an organization cannot protect everything equally if it does not know what everything is.
An asset is anything that has value to the organization and could be harmed, misused, lost, stolen, interrupted, or exposed.
Some assets are obvious, such as laptops, servers, cloud systems, network equipment, databases, buildings, and mobile devices.
Other assets are less visible, such as customer records, business processes, source code, employee knowledge, brand reputation, contracts, and the trust customers place in the organization.
If you only think of assets as physical objects, you miss much of what security is meant to protect.
A payroll system is an asset because people depend on it.
A customer database is an asset because it contains information the organization must protect.
A business process can be an asset because the organization may fail if that process stops.
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