Navigate the PCI DSS lifecycle with specialized solutions designed for the current technical landscape.
The foundational framework for securing payment card data across your enterprise. We provide the professional oversight needed to navigate scoping, technical remediation, and formal assessment to achieve a defensible reporting that helps you meet the expectations of merchant banks and card brands.
The most critical step in reducing your reporting burden. We provide the professional verification needed to accurately map your data flows and technically isolate your Cardholder Data Environment (CDE), ensuring you only protect what matters.
The gold standard for Level 1 merchants and service providers. We conduct an in-depth technical review of your entire environment, delivering the comprehensive professional report required by global financial institutions.
Your formal declaration of security. We provide the independent verification and professional signatures required to finalize your AOC, allowing you to share your compliance status with partners and clients with confidence.
Streamlined guidance for merchants and service providers. We help you select the correct framework and verify your technical responses to ensure your self-attestation is accurate and defensible.
Payment security does not exist in a silo. Most organizations managing PCI DSS are also navigating SOC 2®, ISO 27001, or HIPAA mandates. Our methodology is built to eliminate the redundancy of these overlapping requirements.
We identify the technical commonalities across your necessary compliance frameworks and verify them one time. This “Test Once, Report Many” approach allows you to achieve multi-framework compliance without multiplying your team’s workload, ensuring a consistent and efficient path to resilience.
Auditwerx has extensive experience with service providers and Service Organization Control (SOC*) assessments, so conducting PCI DSS evaluations is a natural extension of our services.
Service providers are unique in that while they may not directly deal with cardholder data, because of or how they deliver their services they could influence the security of their customers’ processing, storing or transmitting of cardholder data and therefore the service provider is required to be PCI compliant.
Don’t make the mistake of waiting! Many service providers do not realize the need to be PCI compliant until customers clamor for it because it is required for their own PCI compliance efforts.
Merchants are still considered the core of the PCI DSS. With the advent of point-to-point encryption (P2PE), end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and tokenization, merchants are drastically reducing their PCI scope thus simplifying their PCI assessments. We work with merchants to get through their assessments as quickly and easily as possible.
Auditwerx QSAs understand the Cloud and what makes up the Cloud. Whether it is VPCs, Docker, Kubernetes or micro-segmentation, we understand Cloud technologies and how they need to be assessed and made PCI compliant. We also understand today’s application development methodologies and the toolsets of DevSecOps.
PCI DSS Readiness is the systematic, proactive process of aligning your organization’s security policies, procedures, and technical controls with the specific requirements of the PCI DSS.
It is a crucial pre-assessment phase where we validate that your CDE is correctly scoped, all mandated security controls are fully implemented, and supporting documentation is complete and accurate before the official annual assessment or Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) submission to minimize business disruption, avoid costly scope expansion, and guarantee a successful annual validation.
Correctly identifying
all in-scope systems, networks, and people.
Implementing technical and administrative controls to close compliance gaps.
Creating or updating mandatory artifacts like policies, procedures, and the System Security Plan (SSP) equivalent.
Performing mock assessments to ensure readiness for the formal assessment (ROC) or SAQ submission.
Without PCI DSS Readiness | With QSA-Led Readiness |
Risking fines and potential loss of processing ability due to overlooked controls or poor documentation. | Achieving a seamless Attestation of Compliance (AOC) on the first attempt. |
Without PCI DSS Readiness | With QSA-Led Readiness |
Over-scoping your CDE, leading to unnecessary effort, complexity, and massive compliance costs. | Implementing strategic de-scoping to reduce complexity, time, and budget. |
Without PCI DSS Readiness | With QSA-Led Readiness |
Emergency remediation efforts that disrupt IT operations and employee productivity during the assessment window. | Following a phased, structured roadmap that embeds security without disrupting core business functions. |
Without PCI DSS Readiness | With QSA-Led Readiness |
Exposing your organization to monthly fines and card brand enforcement actions due to delayed or failed compliance. | Proactively securing your CDE, eliminating exposure to non-compliance penalties. |
We don’t just assess, we partner with you to build a resilient, efficient, and compliant payment security program. Demonstrate your PCI DSS compliance with an assessment from a trusted partner.
You work directly with the partners and specialists performing your reviews, ensuring your unique architecture and business workflows are accurately understood.
We deliver professional, high-quality reports that stand up to the scrutiny of global CISOs and institutional underwriters.
Partner with a single firm throughout your entire compliance lifecycle. Our findings are objective and have no conflicts of interest.
Our U.S. based team of assessment professionals are never outsourced.
200+ years of collective experience translates to the most efficient path to certification, saving you time and money.
We offer flexible integration with leading GRC tools, so you don't have to duplicate evidence.
Compliance is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. That’s why Auditwerx placed a priority on being a true partner for your business. We offer year-round support to ensure your controls remain effective between annual assessments.
Work with the same specialized QSA from initial scoping through final attestation, ensuring consistency and deep knowledge of your environment.
We leverage decades of experience to make the assessment process as efficient as possible, minimizing disruption to your team.
Our priority is to reduce your CDE scope, simplifying your compliance burden and lowering long-term security costs.
The type of report is determined by your acquiring bank and is determined by your transaction volume and your role in the payment ecosystem (Merchant vs. Service Provider). We provide the professional scoping needed to determine if you require an SAQ guidance session or a full Report on Compliance (ROC).
Yes. Our methodology is built to scale. As your transaction volume increases, we help you transition your existing technical evidence into the more rigorous reporting required for a ROC.
Absolutely. We specialize in modern, cloud-native environments and mobile payment architectures, ensuring that your decentralized data flows meet the same rigorous standards as traditional on-premises systems.
…Both operations and assessment teams executed the engagement flawlessly, on-time and on-budget. The Auditwerx team provided us with the necessary guidance, tools and knowledge...We would highly recommend Auditwerx services to organizations of all sizes and requirement complexities.
...Their team has brought a level of knowledge and professionalism that has been unmatched. Our company is required to undergo a number of assessments annually with various firms and Auditwerx has truly been a pleasure to work with...
...The assessment itself was thorough, but non-disruptive. The team was highly professional and very knowledgeable. We recommend Auditwerx...without reservation.
Do you have questions about the newest version of the PCI DSS? Our free download outlines the basic information you need to know.
When you’re ready to start your PCI compliance journey, our experienced team will be here to walk you through the entire process, from assessment readiness to your final report.
Don’t let payment security become a barrier to your growth. Connect with our specialists today to build a customized PCI DSS roadmap that protects your business and your customers.
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