Who's the auditor?Cloud Certified Auditor (CLCA)®
At the midst of the data center, big data, and
cloud management boom, official IDCA Cloud
Certified Auditors (CLCAs)® play a critical role in
the coming age. For the information technology
community, ensuring that the facilities and IT are in
alignment to the business continuity, application
and business needs and maintaining efficiency,
security, safety, capacity, resilience, innovation
and operability are key.
A CLCA® has traveled a long and extensive journey,
fulfilling requirements after requirement to reach
the stage of being able to assess and certify
mission critical data centers. All CLCA™s have
become a Cloud Authority (CLA)®, 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 cloud industry
and community; and on top of all the above, have
completed the rigid CLCA® program. The CLCA®
program is a highly certified auditors ideal for
handling most complex clolud industry’s
compliance needs, only available to certified CLAs.
ReportsComprehensive, detailed, informative, logical,
educating, life 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 cloud 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 cloud 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?Application-centric, cutting edge, IT and Facility
encompassing, Infrastructure and Operation
enabling, educating, assuring, cutting-edge.
IDCA is the first organization in the world that addresses the cloud in its true essence and entirety. Having a comprehensive approach that validates both the logical as well as the physical cloud components, layers, efficacies, and disciplines is the cornerstone that all cloud providers and stakeholders of private cloud, public cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud are in-line with the true disciplines of the industry. IDCA has pioneered the notion of application-centric infrastructures and the Application Ecosystem (AE)®. Therefore, it is an absolute advantage and invaluable resolution to follow IDCA’s cloud audit, assessment and certification guidelines.
