Article 4
ICT asset management policy
1.
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.
2.
The policy on management of ICT assets referred to in paragraph 1 shall:
(a)
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;
(b)
prescribe that the financial entity keeps records of all of the following:
(i)
the unique identifier of each ICT asset;
(ii)
information on the location, either physical or logical, of all ICT assets;
(iii)
the classification of all ICT assets, as referred to in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2254;
(iv)
the identity of ICT asset owners;
(v)
the business functions or services supported by the ICT asset;
(vi)
the ICT business continuity requirements, including recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives;
(vii)
whether the ICT asset can be or is exposed to external networks, including the internet;
(viii)
the links and interdependencies among ICT assets and the business functions using each ICT asset;
(ix)
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;
(c)
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.