BSI Proposes Study of ISO Asset Management Standards

September 11, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS

The proposal includes scopes for three asset management standards:

• Asset management - Overview, principles and terminology, which will provide an overview of the asset management family of standards, introducing asset management and describing its underlying principles.

  It will also include a description of the plan-do-check-act methodology and its application within the asset management standards and definitions for terminology used in asset management standards.

• Asset management - Requirements, which will specify the requirements for an asset management system to manage physical assets and asset systems over their life cycles.
• Asset management - Guidelines on the application of ISO asset management-requirements standard, which will provide guidelines for the application of the specified requirements.

  It will provide examples and illustrations to aid understanding and implementation of the standard but will not include mandatory approaches or methods of implementation.

An information security management system provides a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving the protection of information assets such as information about finances, intellectual property and employees.

More information about BSI's Proposal for a new ISO Project Committee on Asset Management - ISO Guide 72 Justification Study is available from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

As the U.S. member body to ISO, ANSI seeks public comment about the proposal.

Source: American National Standards Institute (ANSI).