You don’t have a grip on the scope of your PCI environment
Critical controls are failing because you can’t monitor them from a spreadsheet
You have hundreds if not thousands of in-scope assets
You have more than one cardholder data environment
Your processes for PCI Compliance are all over the place. Spreadsheets. Word docs. Wiki files. Notepad. Paper napkins.
You have legacy tech debt that impacts shared resources that your cardholder data environment relies upon for communication, security, segmentation, etc.
Institutional knowledge of your PCI Compliance program resides in someone’s head and they just quit. Ooph…
I see you nodding your head in agreement. If you’re suffering with any of the above scenarios, it’s time to give automation a chance.
Automation Makes PCI DSS Compliance Less Complicated
There’s this old saying that you need to be sick and tired of being sick and tired BEFORE you make a change that up ends the status quo.
Implementing a change for the better in large organizations, especially level 1 merchants, is a hard fought victory.
Let’s make the story more compelling to your CISO or CIO because for all you know, they don’t have a full understanding of PCI DSS Compliance and how hard it is to achieve and maintain.
I’ll be the first to admit that continuous PCI Compliance was beyond my grasp when I started my PCI journey in 2012. I was doing my best not to drown in a sea of confusion and chaos.
If something like our newest course, Implement Continuous PCI Compliance, existed a decade ago, I would have been all over this.
Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance is a multi-team effort. And it starts with knowing what’s in scope for assessment. Your network and cardholder data flow diagrams are the heart and soul of your continuous PCI DSS Compliance program.