Why classifying of assets is required

The main reason for classifying assets is so network administrators can take the appropriate action depending on the policy created. 

For example, an employee of an organization wants to send internal training material to his colleague via email. Categorizing assets either as internal or confidential helps to protect that data.

The main steps that are required for the classification of an asset are as follows:

1. Identifying the asset
2. Asset accountability
3. Creating a plan for classifying the information
4. Implementing the plan created