SF - 3.03.0 - ITIL

SF - 3.03.0 - ITIL

ITIL is the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.  It is, in fact, an actual library, or, at least, a collection of books.  At one point it had twenty-nine volumes in it, divided into five sections.  One of the books in the library was on security.  It was, generally speaking, a set of principles, setting out a number of management guidelines.  Because of the importance of management to security, there was an obvious connection to ITIL.  Unfortunately, at some point, the security volume of the information technology infrastructure library was discarded.

Initially, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library was an interesting example of how a poorly defined field required a bothersome and arduous certification process.  You could get certification in ITIL, but in order to do so you had to jump through a lot of hoops, and write a number of essays, on various topics, which I suppose would prove that you had read various volumes of the library.  However, particularly given that ITIL eventually helped influence British standard 15000, and ISO 20000, the ITIL has become more defined, and these days the certification process is much easier.

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