Introduction The CIA triad is used to describe the information’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability as the most important features of an asset (Kim & Solomon, 2012, p. 10). Even though the concept of classification is most often associated with confidentiality, the rest of the features are also relevant in this respect. Classification procedures can be different for companies, which can be proved by the information policies of the University of Liverpool (2014) and University of Wisconsin (2015), but the general principle of information management appears to be more or less the same. For example, both universities single out public assets that are open to anyone; open/internal information available to the staff and students; confidential/restricted information available to a much smaller number of stakeholders with necessary access; strictly confidential/confidential information that is not to be disclosed and can be managed by a very small number of people. Apart from that, the University of Liverpool (2014) introduces the secret level of assets confidentiality that is assigned through a specific procedure. Main body It should be pointed out that neither of the universities attempted to list all the assets in the publically distributed policy statements, but they provided examples. It can be suggested that the major information assets within a university can include the following groups.   * First, a university asset includes information about its courses, schools, majors, or, to sum up, the general information concerning its services. This information is public and should be available for anyone.   * Second, a university provides more detailed information concerning the courses and procedures concerned with studying and researching as an “internal” asset, that is, the data available to the staff and the students.   * Third, the policies of a university can be both public and internal or even restricted, depending on the end-user. For example, the policy concerning privacy can and should be made public so that any potential student could get acquainted with it. At the same time, the University of Liverpool (2014) secret assets status assignment procedure would probably be restricted.   * Fourth, the financial (for example, wages) and legal (for example, personal agreements) data concerning the university is most certainly going to be restricted to the point of being confidential; it is a requirement for the safe operation of the institution.   * Fifth, a university includes personal information concerning students and staff that can include, for example, their identification data, police records, medical records, and so on. This data, technically, belongs to the person it is concerned with; it is confidential, and disclosing it would damage a university’s reputation (University of Wisconsin, 2015). The level of confidentiality and accessibility should correspond to this fact, and the information needs to be particularly restricted and protected.   * Sixth, being a center of research, the university can possess research assets accumulated without the university’s contribution or with it. This asset is usually accumulated with the intent of assisting the students