How ManageEngine Can Help You in Complying With The ISO 20000 Standard
How ManageEngine Can Help You in Complying With The ISO 20000 Standard
ISO 20000
guide
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How ManageEngine can help you in complying
Table of contents
with the ISO 20000 standard 4
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Disclaimer
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How
ManageEngine
can help you in
complying with
the ISO 20000
standard
ManageEngine’s comprehensive suite of
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for conformance.
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Regulations and certifications that
ManageEngine products comply with:
ManageEngine solutions comply with a number of standards and
certifications including:
zens for the processing of their person- their cloud providers are handing
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ManageEngine products that help
in ISO 20000 compliance:
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Process requirement mapping
This section elaborates on how ManageEngine solutions can help your organi-
zation support different processes mentioned under various clauses in the ISO
20000-1
The mandatory requirements mentioned in ISO 20000-1 that need to be fulfilled for certifica-
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Clause 8:
Operation of the
service management
system
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8.2 Service portfolio
8.2.4 Service catalog management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Create and maintain one or more service catalogs with information related to
customers, users, interested parties, and service dependencies.
ServiceDesk Plus
• The customizable service catalog module will help you create and publish your
organization’s services.
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Dependencies and user relationships
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Asset management dashboard
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8.2.6 Configuration management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Services shall be classified as configuration items (CIs) configuration
information for each CI will include a unique identification, type, description,
relationship, and status.
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8.3 Relationship and agreement
8.3.2 Business relationship management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Document customers, users, and other interested parties related to the ser-
vices.
• Review the performance and satisfaction with the services based on samples
at planned intervals.
• Service complaints shall be recorded and managed to closure. If not resolved,
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• Satisfaction with services can effectively be measured using the survey module
at planned intervals. Reporting is extended to identify opportunities for
improvement and measure the performance trends.
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Service request SLA: Response and fulfillment
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Reporting on SLA targets (incident and service request)
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Memory utilization of top 10 devices
SLA dashboard
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8.3.4 Supplier management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Develop, agree on, and maintain a documented agreement with the external
and internal suppliers.
• Monitor the performance of the supplier including service targets at planned
intervals.
ServiceDesk Plus
• The agreements with external and internal suppliers along with sub-contract,
service components, vendor, cost, expiration, etc. can be maintained and
tracked using the Contracts module.
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• Operational-level agreements (OLA’s) agreed on with internal suppliers can be
assigned to incidents and service requests and their performance can be
measured against the agreement.
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8.4 Supply and demand
8.4.1 Budgeting and accounting for services
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Costs shall be budgeted for effective financial control and decision making
for services.
• Monitor and report on actual costs, review the financial forecasts, and manage
costs at planned intervals.
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• Record and report on the actual costs and budget based on depreciation and
spending. ServiceDesk Plus, when integrated with Analytics Plus, provides
more visibility on the budget.
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IT spending
IT spending forecast
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8.4.2 Demand management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Monitor and report on the demand and consumption of services at
planned intervals.
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Storage capacity forecasting
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Technician load: Open requests
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OpManager Plus and Applications Man-
• Monitor and analyze capacity and performance of service components includ-
ing servers, applications, network, bandwidth, and storage.
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Analytics Plus
Advanced analytics on a wide variety of data points including capacity and perfor-
mance can be be generated by integrating ManageEngine applications and any
other applications that use local and cloud databases like MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL,
Azure SQL, etc. with Analytics Plus.
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8.5 Service design, build, and transition
8.5.1 Change management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Requests for changes, including proposals to add, remove, or transfer services,
shall be recorded and classified.
• Assessing, approving, scheduling, and reviewing of new or changed services
shall be managed through the change management activities.
• Interested parties shall make decisions on the approval and on the priority.
• Approved changes shall be prepared, verified, and tested when possible.
• Communicate deployment dates and other deployment details for approved
changes to interested parties.
• The activities to reverse or remedy an unsuccessful change shall be planned
and tested when possible. Unsuccessful changes shall be investigated and
agreed actions shall be taken.
• At planned intervals, request for change records shall be analyzed to detect
trends and effectiveness and to identify opportunities for improvement.
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Configurable change workflow
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Multiple change workflows
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Change planning
• Approval can involve both a change manager and the Change Advisory Board’s
(CAB’s) approval along with the third party’s approval. Once the change is ap-
proved,
Change approval
• Unsuccessful change requests will follow the configured workflow, like return-
ing to previous stages or closing the change record.
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Change review
Analytics Plus
• Analytics Plus, when integrated with ServiceDesk Plus, provides out-of-the box
reports on change management, which helps in analyzing the trend’s effective-
ness.
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Addressed process requirement(s):
• New services or changes to services with potential to have major impact, re-
moval of a service, and transfer of an existing service from/to organization/cus-
tomer/third party shall follow service design and transition.
• Planning shall contain reference to authorities and responsibilities, activities
with timescales, resources information, dependencies, testing, acceptance
criteria, affected CI’s, and date of effect.
• Design shall include authorities and responsibilities, resources information, re-
quired training, SLA/contract changes, impact on other services, and updates
to the service catalog.
• Release and deployment management shall be used to deploy the approved
new or changed services into the live environment.
• After this, the interested parties shall be communicated with achievements
against expected outcomes.
ServiceDesk Plus
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Implementation: Projects and tasks
Release management
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Addressed process requirement(s):
• The types of release, including emergency release, their frequency, and how
they are to be managed, shall be defined.
• The deployment of new or changed services and service components into the
live environment shall be planned and coordinated with change management
and
include references to the related requests for change, known errors or prob-
lems, the deployment dates, deliverables, and methods of deployment.
• The release shall be approved before deployment and verified against
documented acceptance criteria.
• Before deployment of a release into the live environment, a baseline of the
affected CIs shall be taken.
• The success or failure of releases shall be monitored and analyzed, including
• The release request by default can go through different stages like submission,
planning, development, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment,
training, review, and closure. Each stage will mention the status to help track
the progress. New stages/statuses can be configured as required. The work-
flow
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Release workflow
Release calendar
• The release request will contain reference to change, problem, known errors,
and other deliverables.
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New release template: Change association
• Reporting module helps you to analyze the effectiveness of the release to iden-
tify opportunities for improvement.
• For the on-premises version, the same can be handled using a combination of
the change and project modules.
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OpManager Plus
• OpManager’s Network Configuration Manager component can take a back-
up of the network device configurations as a baseline before deployment of a
release, compare the changes, and rollback changes as required.
Compare configurations
AD360
• The Recovery Manager Plus component of AD360 can backup AD objects,
Exchange mailboxes, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online sites as
baselines, and offers simple and granular restoration options.
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Endpoint Central
• The OS Deployment module of Endpoint Central can take an image of the OS
before the deployment of a release. Endpoint Central also helps you to deploy
the releases pertaining to software deployment, patch management, computer
configurations, etc.
Endpoint
Endpoint
Central
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8.6 Resolution and fulfillment
8.6.1 Incident management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Incidents shall be recorded, classified, prioritized based on impact and urgen-
cy, escalated if needed, updated with actions, resolved, and closed.
• Major incidents shall be classified and managed through a documented proce-
dure. The major incidents shall be reported to top management and reviewed
post resolution for opportunities for improvement.
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Response, resolution, and escalation
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Business rules
• Analytics Plus integration helps you to analyze the records for opportunities for
improvement.
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8.6.2 Service request management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Service requests shall be recorded, classified, prioritized, fulfilled, updated with
actions taken, and closed.
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Weekly ticket inflow by category
• The problem record maintains the known errors, root cause, impact, work-
around, and solution.
Problem analysis
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• The problem record can be associated with a change record if a resolution for a
problem is found and can follow the change management process.
• The reporting module of ServiceDesk Plus and the Advanced Analytics mod-
ules help you monitor and review the effectiveness of a problem resolution.
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8.7 Service assurance
8.7.1 Service availability management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Monitor service availability and compare the results with the targets.
• Investigate unplanned non-availability, and take necessary actions.
• The risks to service availability shall be assessed at planned intervals.
Availability statistics
Availability representation
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Applications monitoring
Monitoring dashboard
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Performance monitoring: CPU
Downtime scheduler
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Possible alarm notifications
• The monitored data is stored in the product databases for a configured period
against which the risks to service availability can be generated considering
various factors at planned intervals.
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ManageEngine products that can help in implementing these process-
ServiceDesk Plus
• The ServiceDesk Plus CMDB module helps you to create references to docu-
ments containing continuity plans for the respective services.
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• ServiceDesk Plus supports creating preventive maintenance tasks using which
a request to test the continuity plan can be created and assigned to appropri-
ate IT personnel at planned intervals.
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OpManager reports
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8.7.3 Information security management
Addressed process requirement(s):
• The importance of conforming to the information security policy and its appli-
cability shall be communicated to all interested parties.
• Information security controls shall be determined, implemented and operated
to support the information security policy and address identified information
security risks from both internal and external users.
• Monitor and review the effectiveness of information security controls and take
necessary actions.
• Information security incidents shall be recorded, classified, prioritized, escalat-
ed if needed, resolved, and closed.
• Analyze the information security incidents by type, volume and impact on the
SMS, services, and interested parties to identify opportunities for improve-
Endpoint Central
• The configuration management module helps you to publish the information
security policy to all users of the organization through a logon Legal Notice. The
policies can alsobe published through the ServiceDesk Plus self-service portal.
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ServiceDesk Plus: Self-service portal
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Endpoint Central: Comprehensive patch management
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Endpoint Central: Securing mobile devices
AD360
• Deploy the security controls required for accessing and managing Active
Directory, Exchange, and Microsoft 365 securely through the delegated
capabilities. It also helps to deploy required controls for users to change/reset
the password, unlock accounts through multiple identity verification methods,
and implement multi-factor authentication for users to log in to their machines.
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Commit changes in AD on approval
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AD and file server change auditing
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M365 management auditing and reporting
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PAM360
• Deploy the required controls on privileged access to both internal and external
users for any service component like network devices, servers, databases, etc.
The passwords of the service components can be stored securely and access
to them can be granted based on approval. It records the privileged session
and has the capability to provide just-in-time privilege escalation as well.
• The stored password can be changed post access or periodically using the
configured password policy. It provides reporting on ISO 27001 as well by de-
Compliance reports
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OpManager Plus
• The Network Configuration Manager component of OpManager Plus helps to
track whether all the network devices are compliant based on a set of policies.
• The Firewall Analyzer component helps you to analyze firewall logs for threat
and risks on firewalls.
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Firewall log management
Log360
• Audit the changes and activities on Active Directory, file servers, network de-
vices, servers, applications, databases, workstations, Microsoft 365, Exchange,
AWS, Azure, etc., which serves as a evidence against the implemented controls
and also to evaluate the effectiveness and to identify opportunities for improve-
ment.
Compliance reports
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ServiceDesk Plus
• Information security incidents can be logged in ServiceDesk Plus as a separate
type of incident and can follow its SLA and process. By default, ManageEngine
products can be integrated with ServiceDesk Plus through the possible inci-
dent creation methods like email or API to report on security incidents. Report-
ing helps you to analyze incidents and identify opportunities for improvement.
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Clause 9:
Performance
evaluation
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9.4 Service reporting
Addressed process requirement(s):
• Reports on the performance and effectiveness of the services shall be
produced and shall include trends.
• The reports required are specified in the relevant clauses. Additional reports
can also be produced.
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