Preparing for risk assessment

The organization of all the known assets into the system is a crucial step in the process of governance in IT. Control Compliance Suite lets you collect the data for the assets, manage and monitor the assets, and evaluate the assets against a set of standards. You can collect the asset data either from the data collection components in the system or from a CSV file. Control Compliance Suite lets you reconcile the collected asset data based on certain rules.

The Control Compliance Suite supports certain predefined platforms and predefined asset types. The Control Compliance Suite also provides the flexibility to create your own asset types and perform the risk assessment on the custom asset types.

See Predefined platforms.

See Predefined asset types.

You are ready for the risk assessment when you have imported all the known assets into the asset system. Before you begin the asset import, it is recommended that you review the basic concepts in the asset system.

See Concepts in assets.

Table: Preparing for risk assessment

Task	Description
Register Data Processing Service	Before the Application Server can use a newly installed Data Processing Service (DPS), you must register the DPS with the Application Server. When you register the DPS, you also assign the DPS to a site and specify the DPS roles. See Registering the Data Processing Service. See Importing the specific and common fields for custom asset using the CSV data collector. Go to Settings > Map View > Register DPS.
Configure data collectors	Go to Settings > Map View > Right-click the site > Edit settings. In the Data Processing Service dialog box, configure the following data collectors: Navigate to Collector - General Settings tab. Configure at least one data collection component to collect the assets. You can configure the data collector for the platform for which you want to import the assets. For example: If you want to collect the data for the Windows platform, you must configure the Windows Information Server settings. See Configuring the data collectors. Navigate to Collector settings by site and click CSV Settings. Select Common from the platform list. Configure the Common platform through CSV settings if you want to collect the data for the fields that are common for all the asset types. See Configuring Common platform through CSV settings.
Set up the reconciliation rules	Go to Manage > Asset System > Reconciliation Rules > Create Rule. See Asset reconciliation. Perform one of the following tasks to use the reconciliation rules: Use the predefined reconciliation rules to add the assets into the asset system for the first time. However, the predefined reconciliation rules add all the imported assets into the default folder, Asset System. See Predefined reconciliation rules. Create you own reconciliation rules to organize the assets into the asset system in a specific folder hierarchy. See Creating reconciliation rules without manual review. See Reconciliation rules and rule types.
Import the assets	Go to Manage > Assets > Asset System > Asset Tasks > Import Assets. Perform the following tasks to import the assets into the asset system: Identify the primary assets of the asset type that you want to import. See Primary and secondary assets. Import the primary assets either with the predefined reconciliation rules or with the custom reconciliation rules. See Importing the assets for the first time. Import the secondary assets either from the default data collector or from the CSV data collector. See Importing asset-specific fields from the default data collector. See Importing asset-specific and common fields using the default data collector. See Importing asset-specific and common fields using the CSV data collector. See Importing the specific and common fields for custom asset using the CSV data collector.
Create asset groups	Go to Manage > Assets > Asset System > Asset Group Tasks > Create Asset Group. Perform the following tasks with the asset groups: Create static and dynamic asset groups to create asset clusters on the basis of a common logical criteria. See Creating a static asset group. See Creating a dynamic asset group. Use the predefined dynamic asset groups. Copy a relevant predefined asset group to the folder in which you want to create an asset cluster. See Predefined asset groups.