Independent software audit
An independent software audit is an outside assessment of what an organisation's software development produces and what state its code is in, carried out by a party with no stake in the answer. It reads output and value, quality and technical debt, security and architecture, and reports them to the budget owner in business terms.
It differs from a code review, which looks at a single change, and from a security audit, which looks for vulnerabilities: an independent software audit measures what the whole investment produces across teams and vendors, and grounds it in cost.
Independence is what makes it trustworthy. The party producing the audit does not sell the tools it measures, does not host the code, and has no incentive to inflate the result. Access is read-only, sandboxed and audit-trailed.
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