The emergence of information asset hails from information resource management which had been to regulate and design all of the pre-requisites necessary for information production. It considered becoming an expressible chunk of information of which organizations reconsider as valuable. It takes resurgence after some organizations realized the importance of information assets with the aim of avoiding larger losses in the event that its business activities cannot continue to function due to loss of IT infrastructure and data. The basic goal of information management is to harness the information resources and information capabilities in order to enable the organization to learn and adapt to its changing environment. Critical information assets are regarded as any essential piece of information, stored in any manner which is absolutely necessary for the success of an organization. It is considered as a component of critical infrastructures that covers both physical and information infrastructures while the definition is limited to the information infrastructure. The main problem facing organizations is the ability to provide information that could potentially be used to their disadvantage if it were disclosed. This paper discuss some means by which an organization would be able to know and indentify the critical data that yields useful information and must understand why it is important to it day-to-day business functions.
