PCI DSS Compliance

Safeguarding cardholder data is not optional—it’s a mandatory requirement. Ensuring compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is critical to protecting sensitive payment information and mitigating security risks. We help you navigate the complexities of PCI DSS requirements, ensuring your organization maintains compliance and protects cardholder data effectively.

PCI QSAs Ready to Help You Ensure Your Compliance

If your organization stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data as defined by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), or provides services that impact the security of cardholder data, you have a compliance obligation.

Our team of PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) is ready to help you meet these obligations through a range of services, including advisory and assessment support, as well as formal audits and attestations when needed. With our expertise, you can confidently achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance.

PCI Assessment Services

Our PCI Assessment Services offer a structured approach to meet your compliance needs. Each assessment follows a standardized methodology, delivering a formal report on your organization’s compliance status based on PCI DSS requirements. Our services include:

  • PCI Gap Assessment: Our PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) evaluate your organization’s readiness against PCI DSS to determine your current compliance status. We provide a detailed strategy to address any identified compliance gaps.
  • PCI Remediation Development and Implementation: After completing a Gap Assessment, our experts assist in developing a high-level, prioritized roadmap for remediating compliance gaps. We also offer hands-on support to execute the remediation plan.
  • PCI Annual Assessment: Our team conducts the required annual assessment, including validating your PCI compliance scope, completing necessary testing procedures, and providing the Merchant or Service Provider Report on Compliance (ROC) or Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). We also issue the accompanying Attestation of Compliance (AOC).
  • PCI DSS 4.0 Delta Assessment: Stay ahead of the changes in PCI DSS 4.0. Our QSAs assess your environment against the updated 4.0 requirements, advise on the new Customized Approach, and help ensure your organization is prepared to meet the new standards and strengthen cardholder data protection.

With our support, you can confidently navigate PCI DSS compliance, address gaps, and prepare for future changes.

PCI DSS Advisory Services

Our highly customizable PCI DSS Advisory Services are designed to provide tailored support for any PCI compliance-related questions or challenges you may face. Our team of PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) becomes an on-demand extension of your team, assisting in any capacity necessary to address your specific needs. We offer assistance in the following areas:

  • Identifying client cardholder data payment channels
  • Determining the current scope of your PCI environment
  • Providing informal training for employees with PCI responsibilities
  • Identifying the necessary controls to support PCI compliance and reviewing internal testing strategies
  • Offering guidance on solutions that support PCI compliance
  • Providing general PCI consultation and coaching

Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0? We are here to support you in meeting the new requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0. Our PCI 4.0 Readiness Services will integrate a QSA into your team, leading the efforts in confirming the required scope and addressing new activities, as well as developing the necessary documentation to ensure full alignment with the updated standard.

Additional Services to Support Your PCI Compliance Efforts

We offer a wide range of professional services and procurement capabilities to support your organization in achieving and maintaining PCI compliance, including:

  • Internal and external penetration testing
  • Internal and external vulnerability scanning
  • Application security testing and qualified third-party security code reviews
  • Managed security services
  • Policy and procedure development
  • Risk assessment
  • Vendor management