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Committee of Experts – volunteers required Get involved. Join the Committee of Experts. Join your peers to help formulate what the certification scheme will look like and how conformity will be measured. Raising the profile of ITAM We all know that ISO 19770 is very useful...
Back in December 2020, the voluntary group that creates the 19770 family of standards asked for feedback from the ITAM community as it began developing guidance for how to implement ITAM. See “Poll reveals strong interest in 19770 certification.” Specifically, the request...
Thank you to everyone who took part in our t-shirt competition at the start of December. This article shares the winners of the competition and reveals strong interest in 19770 certification. Congratulations to Rachel Geer-Hughes (USA), Parpreet Singh (India) and Claire Stanton (UK)...
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Creating implementation guidance for meeting 19770 The voluntary group that creates the 19770 family of standards is developing guidance for implementing ITAM. The group seeks feedback from anyone working in the IT Asset Management field to share their views on the sort of guidance...
ITAM in Banking Working Group We announced the launch of a new not-for-profit trade body last month, with a call for volunteers to a trustee board to oversee its operation. I’m pleased to say we’ve received a very positive response from ITAM professionals around the globe and...
This article has been contributed by Matt Stacey at QMS International. Recent Survey Highlights Shift in Business Cyber-Security Efforts The figures of the global survey of ISO management standards showed that over 2,000 Information Security Management System Certificates were...
The USA’s National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) have published a Cyber Security Guide for ITAM. The publication was co-written with the National Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (NCCoE and provides an insight into what Security Professionals expect an Asset...
This update on ISO has been provided by David Bicket. David writes: “Edition 3 of ISO/IEC 19770-1 for Software and IT Asset Management has recently been published by ISO. It is a major advance for SAM and ITAM practitioners to increase value and reduce cost and risk for the organizations...
WG21, the voluntary group that builds the family of ITAM standards (ISO/IEC 19770), has set up a study group to explore a formal certification. As yet, since formation in 2006, no organisation has been formally recognised as verified as achieving an ISO level of ITAM. A formal certification...