It is important to clearly communicate to the target audience which items on the list are threats, assets and controls (however weak they may be). Executives must understand how the combination of these categories of things can be manipulated to cause harm to the enterprise.

Technical documents that are executed at a high level can enhance the overall value of the product or system as a whole, as well as accomplish the more mundane (but equally important) technical writing aims of explaining a product or process to its end users, reducing support calls, mitigating risks, and ticking the correct legal and regulatory box