“Comprehensive, Effective,
Detailed and Groundbreaking”
IDCA application audits can be conducted at three
(3) distinct phases of the application design, development and maintenance lifecycle:
Who's the auditor?Application Certified Auditor (APCA)®
At the midst of the IT, application, data center, big data, and
cloud management boom, official IDCA Application
Certified Auditors (APCAs)® play a critical role in
the coming age. For the application and software development
community, ensuring that the application is in
alignment to the business continuity, and business needs and maintaining efficiency,
security, safety, capacity, resilience, innovation
and operability are key.
An APCA® has traveled a long and extensive journey,
fulfilling requirements after requirement to reach
the stage of being able to assess and certify
mission critical application infrastructures and platforms. All APCA®s have
become a Application Authority (APA)®, which
means they are industry veterans, with many years
of in-depth expertise, successfully completed
all IDCA education and certification ladder; have
contributed significantly to the application and software industry
and community; and on top of all the above, have
completed the rigid APCA® program. The APCA®
program is a highly certified auditors ideal for
handling most complex software industry’s
compliance needs, only available to certified APAs.
ReportsComprehensive, detailed, informative, logical,
educating, cost-saving and essential!
Due to its universally effective approach, IDCA
audit reports are highly regarded for their
comprehensiveness, details, and effectiveness
for the organization under assessment. The audit
reports typically become part of the organization’s
educational process in order to educate and
inform the application operations, maintenance,
design and implementation staff to understand the
mistakes, flaws and shortfalls and ensure such will
not repeat themselves in the future. In addition,
the report becomes a reference point for upcoming
projects and a benchmark of compliance matrix for
minimizing risks and non-compliances in the future.
The application undergoing IDCA audit can expect
to receive grade certification and classification per
every high-level component of its infrastructure,
i.e. SFI G1, Site G2, and G3. The report will also
include the results of measurements and scans in
accordance to IDCA.
Why IDCA?“Cutting-edge,
infrastructure and operation
enabling, educating, assuring.”
IDCA is the first organization in the world that developed the notion of the Application Ecosystem (AE)®. Having a solid, modern and comprehensive approach that validates both the logical as well as physical and actual application ecosystem components, layers, efficacies, and disciplines is the cornerstone that all application providers and stakeholders of the application and software are in-line with the true disciplines of the industry. IDCA has pioneered, developed standards and educated professionals on the notion of application-centric infrastructures and the Application Ecosystem (AE). Therefore, it is an absolute advantage and invaluable resolution to follow IDCA’s application audit, assessment and certification guidelines.
