CoBIT, ITIL ISO 17799 Interrelation

Submitted by hardikm on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 11:25am.

I attended Roadshow in Chicago (ITIL V 3 official LAunch). In conference, ITIL V 3 books were officially launched. There were presentations by all authors and lot of things were told about ITIL. It was very interesting to me as completely new framework of ITIL was launched. I was also curious to know more about COBIT, ITIL and other frameworks interaction. As Sharon Taylor, Chief Architect of ITIL told they are going to publish a separate book on this topic.

I was going to a document which talks about alignment of CoBIT,  ITIL and ISO 17799 for supporting business.

The document is a result of a joint study, initiated by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) and UK government’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC), in response to the growing significance of best practices to the IT industry and the need for senior business and IT managers to better understand the value of IT best practices and how to implement them. Specific practices and standards such as ITIL and ISO 17799 cover discrete areas and can be mapped up to the COBIT Framework, thus providing a hierarchy of guidance materials. This document shows how they all interrelate.

http://www.isaca.org/AMTemplate.cfm?Section=Deliverables&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=31464 

 

Regards

Hardik  


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COBIT focuses on IT management and control. Ultimately, it is designed to support management so that they understand what it is they need to do to ensure that investments in IT are maximized around business value. Unfortunately, COBIT does not tell one how to accomplish these things. This is the primary reason that COBIT must be combined with other frameworks to ensure success.
 

ITIL’s strengths are service delivery and management. ITIL processes are easily mapped to COBIT; 22 of the 34 COBIT processes map directly to ITIL delivery and support best practices.

 

Just for reference, my organization uses COBIT, ITIL, and ISO 17799. ISO 17799 addresses all of the areas necessary to provide a comprehensive approach to security. ISO 17799 also maps to parts of COBIT; in fact, 25 of the 34 COBIT processes, directly maps.

Submitted by keldreth on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 1:02pm.