Asset classes

An asset class answers “what kind of thing is this?” for an asset — a server, a business process, a set of personal data. Classes form a tree, so a class can refine a broader one, and each asset points at most one class. CyberGuard ships with a taxonomy derived from the CIS asset categories (Devices, Software, Data, Users, Network, Facilities, Documentation, Business Process and their sub-classes), which you can extend with your own classes and prune by hiding the ones you don’t use.

Where to find it

Extra → Asset classes manages the taxonomy. The class itself is set on each asset’s form, and the Assets by class tree view is reached from the Assets page.

Key concepts

The class is deliberately separate from the asset’s domain and from its primary/supporting type. Those three answer different questions:

Question	Field
Who owns and can see it?	Domain
Does it deliver value directly, or support something that does?	Type (primary / supporting)
What kind of thing is it?	Class

Keeping them apart lets you read your whole estate by class regardless of who owns each asset.

Built-in versus your own classes

Shipped classes are marked Builtin. They cannot be renamed or deleted, but they can be hidden: clear Visible and the class disappears from the picker used when classifying an asset, without touching assets already classified under it. Classes you create are yours entirely — rename, re-parent, hide or delete them. The intended way to extend the shipped taxonomy is to create your own class under a built-in parent.

Working with asset classes

Use the add button on the Asset classes page. The form asks for a Name, an optional Description, an optional Parent class (leave empty for a top-level class — the picker excludes the class’s own descendants so it can never become its own ancestor), Translations per language, and a Visible toggle (on by default). To add a child directly under an existing class, open that class and use the add button on its children table.

Deleting a class also deletes every class beneath it — the confirmation dialog lists exactly what will go. Assets classified under a deleted class are never deleted; they simply become unclassified.

Classifying and browsing

On the asset form, the Class field is a searchable tree showing only visible classes; the selected class displays its full path so same-named classes stay distinguishable. The Assets by class page then turns the taxonomy into navigation: each class shows a rolled-up asset count, empty classes are hidden unless you clear Hide empty classes, and unclassified assets gather in an Unclassified group — a handy backlog when tidying the inventory.

Assets — where classes are applied.
Business impact analysis — criticality on top of classification.