[A.25] Theft

Types of assets:

·         [HW] computer equipment (hardware)

·         [Media] media

·         [AUX] auxiliary equipment

Dimensions:

1.   [A] availability

2.   [C] confidentiality

Description:

Theft of equipment directly causes a lack of resources to provide the services,  that is, non-availability.

All types of equipment may be affected by theft, the most common being theft of equipment or information media.

Theft may be carried out by internal personnel, persons outside the organisation or persons contracted temporarily, which sets different degrees of ease for accessing the stolen object and different consequences.

In the case of equipment hosting data, a leak of information may also occur.

See:

EBIOS:

20 - THEFT OF MEDIA OR DOCUMENTS

21 - THEFT OF EQUIPMENT