PCI DSS Compliance Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements. Our assessment examines cardholder data environments, security controls, and processes to identify compliance gaps and provide a detailed remediation roadmap to achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance while protecting sensitive payment information.
In scope
- PCI DSS requirements gap analysis
- Cardholder data environment assessment
- Network segmentation validation
- Secure configuration review
- Vulnerability management evaluation
- Access control implementation assessment
- Security monitoring and testing review
- Information security policy evaluation
- Encryption implementation review
- Service provider management assessment
- Self-assessment questionnaire preparation
- Attestation of compliance guidance
You receive
- PCI DSS compliance report
- Cardholder data flow mapping
- Gap analysis and findings
- Scope reduction recommendations
- Security control enhancement plan
- Vulnerability remediation strategy
- Compliance documentation framework
- SAQ preparation assistance
- Remediation roadmap and timeline
- PCI compliance maintenance strategy
- Implementation prioritization
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential PCI DSS Assessment
$34K
SAQ-eligible merchants: one cardholder data environment with up to 3 card-accepting locations, 1 e-commerce channel and up to 5 service providers. Data flow map, gap analysis against all 12 requirements, SAQ type selection and a remediation roadmap.
- Sites
- 3
- web apps
- 1
- vendors
- 5
- Cardholder data flow mapping
- Gap analysis against the 12 PCI DSS requirements
- SAQ type selection and completion guidance
- Scope reduction recommendations
- Remediation roadmap with priorities
- — Network segmentation validation testing
- — Writing policies and compliance documentation
- — ASV scans and penetration testing
- — Report on Compliance preparation
Comprehensive PCI Compliance Program
$60K
Up to 10 card-accepting locations, up to 3 e-commerce channels and up to 15 service providers. Adds segmentation design validation, secure configuration sampling, drafted PCI policies and procedures, and remediation guidance sessions with control owners.
- Sites
- 10
- web apps
- 3
- vendors
- 15
- Everything in the SAQ-merchant tier
- Network segmentation validation (design and rule review)
- Secure configuration review on sampled systems
- Drafted PCI policy and procedure set
- Service provider management assessment
- — Report on Compliance preparation
- — Hands-on remediation of systems
- — ASV scans and penetration testing
- — Post-project compliance maintenance support
Enterprise Payment Security Framework
$95K
Advanced compliance program for complex payment environments with custom implementation support, SAQ/ROC preparation, and ongoing compliance maintenance
- Sites
- 25
- web apps
- 5
- vendors
- 30
- — The formal QSA validation audit and signed ROC
- — ASV scans and penetration testing
- — Security tooling costs
- — Environments above 25 locations (scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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