Hardware, software and data asset management

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Explain the asset life cycle: planning/scoping, acquisition/procurement, assignment/accounting (ownership, classification), monitoring/tracking (inventory, enumeration) and disposal/decommissioning
Select disposal methods: sanitization (overwrite, secure erase, cryptographic erase), destruction (shredding, degaussing, pulverizing) and certificates of destruction

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Identify the risks created by untracked assets and improper decommissioning

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