# Assets

> The data, systems, and capabilities of value that a threat model enumerates as the things worth protecting.

Record: `lexicon:assets`
Kind: artifact
Layer: [Security Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/security-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-assets

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Unrestricted Access](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/unrestricted-access.md) and before [Attribute Definitions](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/attribute-definitions.md).

## Category

- [Security Privacy Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/security-privacy-compliance.md)

## Required by

- [Threat Modeling](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/threat-modeling.md)

## Linked from

- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)