Is Your PCI Compliance Program Buried In Spreadsheets?
If you’ve got 4 in-scope devices, then yes. You probably can handle your PCI Compliance program with a spreadsheet.
But.
If you’re a merchant with multiple cardholder data flows, maybe even multiple cardholder data environments and hundreds if not thousands of in-scope assets, then a spreadsheet is not going to work.
5 reasons why it’s time to automate:
- You have 20, 30, or even 40 in scope technologies that provide network segmentation, security, or are simply connected to your cardholder environment.
- Your critical controls are failing because you can’t monitor them effectively from a spreadsheet.
- You have no idea what’s in scope because you’ve got 7 spreadsheets with assets, system administrators, system owners, etc., and you have no idea which spreadsheet is your authoritative source.
- Your processes for PCI Compliance are all over the place. Spreadsheets. Word docs. Wiki files. Notepad. Paper napkins.
- Institutional knowledge of your PCI Compliance program resides in someone’s head and they just quit.