Asset & Configuration Management Policy

1. Purpose

Provide a framework for identifying, recording and maintaining Clerk.io assets and for ensuring that systems are configured according to approved security baselines.

2. Scope

All hardware, software, data and cloud resources that process, store or transmit Clerk.io information.
Applies to production, staging and corporate IT environments.

3. Asset Inventory

The authoritative inventory is managed in Linear CMDB and synchronised nightly by internal AI agents.
Each asset record includes owner, classification, location and lifecycle status.
New assets must be registered before being placed into service.

4. Configuration Management

Phase	Requirement
Baseline Definition	SRE defines hardened images (CIS-benchmarked container base images).
Change Control	Deviations require GitHub Pull Request, peer review and automated policy-as-code checks.
Versioning	All IaC modules are semver-tagged; production environments pin to specific tags.
Drift Detection	Daily configuration drift scans; Better Stack alert on unmanaged resources.

5. Hardening Standards

Cloud account defaults follow CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.5.
Endpoint devices enforce FileVault / BitLocker, password complexity and auto-patching.
Docker images scanned for vulnerabilities; High/Critical CVEs blocked at build time.

6. Monitoring & Review

Internal AI agents continuously compare running resources against baselines.
Bi-monthly audit of inventory vs. financial fixed-asset register.

7. Roles & Responsibilities

Role	Responsibility
SRE Lead	Maintain IaC baselines and drift detection tooling
Information Security Manager	Approve hardening standards & review exceptions
Asset Owners	Keep asset metadata current; initiate decommissioning

8. Decommissioning

Servers: data wiped using secure erase or cloud crypto-erasure; tickets archived.
End-user devices: Secure wipe & hardware returned to IT.

9. Exceptions

All exceptions documented in Linear SECURITY queue with compensating controls and expiry date.

Evidence IDs: INV-01, CFG-01, CFG-02 (see Controls Matrix).