Article 4 ICT asset management policy

As part of the ICT security policies, procedures, protocols, and tools referred to in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, financial entities shall develop, document, and implement a policy on management of ICT assets.

1. prescribe the monitoring and management of the lifecycle of ICT assets identified and classified in accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554;

2. prescribe that the financial entity keeps records of all of the following:

   1. the unique identifier of each ICT asset;

   2. information on the location, either physical or logical, of all ICT assets;

   3. the classification of all ICT assets, as referred to in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2254;

   4. the identity of ICT asset owners;

   5. the business functions or services supported by the ICT asset;

   6. the ICT business continuity requirements, including recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives;

   7. whether the ICT asset can be or is exposed to external networks, including the internet;

   8. the links and interdependencies among ICT assets and the business functions using each ICT asset;

   9. where applicable, for all ICT assets, the end dates of the ICT third-party service provider’s regular, extended, and custom support services after which those ICT assets are no longer supported by their supplier or by an ICT third-party service provider;

3. for financial entities other than microenterprises, prescribe that those financial entities keep records of the information necessary to perform a specific ICT risk assessment on all legacy ICT systems referred to in Article 8(7) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554.