Incident Management Process
The purpose of Incident Management is to manage interruptions to service that users of IT services suffer from time to time.
The definition of an Incident is: any event which is not part of standard operation of service and which causes, or may cause an interruption or reduction in the quality of that service.
Incident Management is a process that is put in place to help capture, manage, resolve and communicate incidents in a consistent and effective manner, thus providing quicker resolution and minimizing negative business impact.
The RSA ServiceDesk will be the single point of contact for all IT related incidents and service requests within the business. RSA Incident Management will be responsible for consequently invoking the internal operational escalation procedures through the Service Management Tool to ensure that all IT related issues are resolved.
The goal of Incident Management is to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimize the adverse impact on business operations, thus ensuring that the best possible levels of service quality and availability are maintained.
Keywords
Servicedesk: SPOC, Single Point Of Contact
Incident detection and recording
Classification and Initial Support
Investigation and Diagnosis
Resolution and Recovery
Incident Closure
Incident Ownership,
Communication
Escalation