PCI DSS

For businesses that process credit cards, compliance with PCI is a crucial to the financial well being of the organization. In order to demonstrate compliance, the business must ensure that each control is met. Our customers must ensure that their network, applications, and systems are compliant. We offer several services that allow our customers to conduct business with confidence.

PCI DSS GAP Analysis – Becoming PCI DSS complaint or maintaining PCI DSS compliance is a very difficult process for many organizations. The ever changing PCI DSS requirement interpretations and the new revisions of the PCI standard makes it very confusing for companies to understand how to achieve or maintain their PCI DSS compliance. Stratum Security provides expert PCI DSS consulting services and can perform a gap analysis to identify an organization’s current compliance level to the PCI DSS standard and make recommendations on how to most cost effectively and quickly achieve compliance. Our gap analysis process not only includes recommendations on how to achieve compliance but also provides a priority risk ranking that clearly shows which non-complaint areas should be remediated first and what areas should have a lower priority.

PCI DSS Remediation Consulting – Sometimes the most difficult part of achieving PCI DSS compliance is identifying cost effective solutions that can be quickly deployed to close the identified gaps and achieve compliance. Stratum Security’s consultants have worked with hundreds of clients to identify cost effective solutions that can be quickly implemented to achieve PCI DSS compliance. Stratum Security can also assist organizations in reviewing gaps and identifying area were compensating controls can be deployed.

PCI DSS Remediation Project Management – Organizing and managing a PCI DSS remediation project can be a very difficult task for organizations that do not have a strong understanding of the PCI DSS standards.Unfortunately, some organizations take many months or years to achieve PCI DSS compliance and face fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the credit card companies because of the delay. Stratum Security provides expert PCI DSS remediation project management services to help organizations manage the remediation process, organize resources, and provide expert advice as needed to the internal teams performing the remediation task.

PCI DSS Policy & Procedure Development – The cornerstone of a strong information security program is having the proper information security policies, standards, guidelines and procedures in place. Over half of the PCI DSS requirements ask for some form of policy, standard, guideline or procedure be written and implemented to support the requirement. Stratum Security can provide expert consulting on areas of weakness in an organization’s policies, standards, guidelines and procedures or assist in the development of new documentation.

PCI DSS Training – A common struggle for many organizations is a general lack of understanding of what PCI DSS standard is and what needs to be done to achieve compliance. Stratum Security can provide on- site training for your PCI compliance team, IT teams and management to help them understand the PCI DSS compliance process, scope, and requirements. This is highly recommended for any organization beginning or currently going through a PCI DSS remediation process.

To discuss how Stratum Security can help you tackle your PCI challenges, contact us at pci@stratumsecurity.com or 888-687-1337.