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DS9.2 - Identification and Maintenance of Configuration Items

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Identification and Maintenance of Configuration Items

Establish configuration procedures to support management and logging of all changes to the configuration repository. Integrate these procedures with change management, incident management and problem management procedures.

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  • Effective change and incident management
  • Compliance with accounting requirements
  Risk Drivers
  • Failure to identify business-critical components
  • Uncontrolled change management, causing business disruptions
  • Inability to assess the impact of a change because of inaccurate information
  • Inability to accurately account for assets

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  1. Define and implement a policy requiring all configuration items and their attributes and versions to be identified and maintained.
  2. Tag physical assets according to a defined policy. Consider using an automated mechanism, such as barcodes.
  3. Define a policy that integrates incident, change and problem management procedures with the maintenance of the configuration repository.
  4. Define a process to record new, modified and deleted configuration items and their relative attributes and versions. Identify and maintain the relationships between configuration items in the configuration repository.
  5. Establish a process to maintain an audit trail for all changes to configuration items.
  6. Define a process to identify critical configuration items in relationship to business functions (component failure impact analysis).
  7. Record all assets—including new hardware and software, procured or internally developed—within the configuration management data repository.
  8. Define and implement a process to ensure that valid licences are in place to prevent the inclusion of unauthorised software.

 

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