ISO/IEC 38500:2024

ISO/IEC 38500:2024

February 2024
International standard Current

Information technology - Governance of IT for the organization

This document provides guiding principles for members of governing bodies of organizations and those that support them on the effective, efficient and acceptable use of information technology (IT) within their organizations.This document is applicable to:—     the governance of the organization’s current, and future, use of IT;—     the governance of IT as a domain of governance of organizations.In terms of audience, this document is applicable to:—     all organizations, including public and private companies, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations;—     organizations of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest, regardless of the extent of their use of IT.

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Publication date

February 2024

Number of pages

21 p.

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ISO/IEC 38500:2024

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35.020   Information technology (IT) in general

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Information technology - Governance of IT for the organization

This document provides guiding principles for members of governing bodies of organizations and those that support them on the effective, efficient and acceptable use of information technology (IT) within their organizations.

This document is applicable to:

     the governance of the organization’s current, and future, use of IT;

     the governance of IT as a domain of governance of organizations.

In terms of audience, this document is applicable to:

     all organizations, including public and private companies, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations;

     organizations of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest, regardless of the extent of their use of IT.

Replaced standards (1)
ISO/IEC 38500:2015
February 2015
International standard Cancelled
Information technology - Governance of IT for the organization

ISO/IEC 38500:2015 provides guiding principles for members of governing bodies of organizations (which can comprise owners, directors, partners, executive managers, or similar) on the effective, efficient, and acceptable use of information technology (IT) within their organizations. It also provides guidance to those advising, informing, or assisting governing bodies. They include the following: executive managers; members of groups monitoring the resources within the organization; external business or technical specialists, such as legal or accounting specialists, retail or industrial associations, or professional bodies; internal and external service providers (including consultants); auditors. ISO/IEC 38500:2015 applies to the governance of the organization's current and future use of IT including management processes and decisions related to the current and future use of IT. These processes can be controlled by IT specialists within the organization, external service providers, or business units within the organization. ISO/IEC 38500:2015 defines the governance of IT as a subset or domain of organizational governance, or in the case of a corporation, corporate governance. ISO/IEC 38500:2015 is applicable to all organizations, including public and private companies, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. ISO/IEC 38500:2015 is applicable to organizations of all sizes from the smallest to the largest, regardless of the extent of their use of IT. The purpose of ISO/IEC 38500:20015 is to promote effective, efficient, and acceptable use of IT in all organizations by: assuring stakeholders that, if the principles and practices proposed by the standard are followed, they can have confidence in the organization's governance of IT, informing and guiding governing bodies in governing the use of IT in their organization, and establishing a vocabulary for the governance of IT.

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