ScienceSoft as a PCI Consultant
Facilitating PCI Compliance
PCI consulting services by ScienceSoft help merchants evaluate, achieve, and maintain compliance with PCI DSS, as well as enable payment software providers meet the requirements of PCI SSF.
PCI consulting services embrace the assessment and improvement of security policies, procedures and IT security measures that companies operating with cardholder data employ to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. For payment software vendors, PCI consulting may cover the evaluation of SDLC, development environment, software architecture and security features, as well as actionable recommendations to achieve compliance with PCI Secure Software Standard and PCI Secure Software Lifecycle Standard.
Who Can Benefit from PCI Consulting
Merchants
Entities accepting payment cards of American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard or Visa as payment for goods or services:
- Retail businesses, including ecommerce retailers.
- Travel and hospitality companies.
- Healthcare providers.
- IT and telecom service providers.
- Educational businesses.
- Companies in media and entertainment.
- Financial firms and others.
Service providers
Entities (other than payment brands) directly involved in the processing, storage, or transmission of cardholder data:
- Web hosting companies.
- Payment gateways providers.
- Independent sales organizations.
- Providers of billing account management services and others.
Software manufacturers
Software product companies delivering payment solutions:
- Point of sale (POS) software.
- Payment middleware.
- Card-not-present applications.
- Shopping cart applications.
- Mobile payment acceptance applications and others.
Risk management advice
- Defining CDE (cardholder data environment).
- Analyzing potential threats to cardholder data and their impact.
- Designing risk mitigation and incident response plan.
Security policies and procedures review and improvement
- Scrutinizing existing policies and procedures on handling cardholder data: cardholder data storage and retention, data transfer, etc.
- Analyzing the detected compliance gaps in the existing policies and procedures.
- Improvement recommendations.
Evaluating and enhancing the security level of software and IT infrastructure
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of IT networks and applications.
- Advising on corrective measures for the detected vulnerabilities.
- Recommendations on improving infrastructure security: e.g., migrating to a secure IT environment, configuring firewalls and antimalware, designing secure network architecture.
Assessing the employees’ PCI security awareness
- Interviewing the employees on PCI DSS requirements.
- Applying social engineering to check the resilience of the staff to human-based cyber attacks.
- Advising on an efficient PCI training process.
Assistance with transition from PCI DSS 3.2.1 to 4.0
- Gap analysis (comparing to the current PCI DSS version).
- Helping update existing and establish new security policies and procedures.
Maintaining PCI DSS compliance
- Advising on identity and access management.
- Helping establish user activity monitoring.
- Developing continuous vulnerability management plan.
- Scheduling regular penetration testing, including social engineering, etc.
We help software product companies implement PCI SSF requirements and deliver PCI-compliant payment solutions.
Advising on PCI-compliant software development
- Analyzing the security of the established development practices (if regular unit testing is performed, secure coding practices are followed, etc.)
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of the development infrastructure.
- Recommendations on fixing the detected security gaps.
- Establishing the secure development process for PCI-DSS compliant software (description of a secure SDLC, VA and pentesting schedule, etc.)
Software PCI compliance assessment and improvement
- Review of software requirements, gap analysis (if all requirements needed to comply with PCI are in place).
- Analyzing software architecture, advising on improving its security level.
- Source code review and recommendations.
We are ready complement our consulting services with remediation and managed services to achieve continuous compliance. We can develop efficient security policies, install and configure security components to secure IT networks or the development infrastructure, design and implement software security features for cardholder data protection.
Sample Deliverables You Get as a Result of PCI Compliance Consulting
During a consulting project, we document its steps and outcomes. We aim to give a clear insight into the process and lay the basis for further implementation of security policies and measures required for full compliance with PCI DSS. Depending on a project, we may provide:
For enterprises
- Compliance scope report (inventory of data, software, and network components that must be compliant with PCI DSS) with recommendations on the scope reduction.
- Report on security policies and controls in place with improvement recommendations.
- Cardholder data security risk report and mitigation plan.
- Network configuration diagrams with improvement recommendations.
- Security testing reports describing and prioritizing vulnerabilities endangering cardholder data with remediation recommendations.
- PCI DSS compliance pre-audit report.
- SOPs aimed at maintaining PCI DSS compliance.
For software manufacturers
- A report on the existing secure development policies and procedures with improvement advice.
- Development infrastructure review report.
- Software threat modeling report.
- Secure software architecture diagrams.
- List of software features required to achieve PCI compliance (tokenization, data masking, etc.).
- Software architecture and source code review reports.
- Secure software pre-assessment report.
Why ScienceSoft
- Since 2003 in cybersecurity, a solid portfolio of successfully completed projects.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner, 11 years of experience with Azure.
- AWS Select Tier Services Partner, 10 years of experience with AWS.
- ISO 9001-certified mature quality management to guarantee smooth cooperation and value-driving results.
- 100% security of our customers' data ensured by ISO 27001-certified security management system.
- For the second straight year, ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times.
Why Choose ScienceSoft as Your PCI Consultant
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Precise definition of PCI DSS compliance scope and recommendation on its reduction: we will help you avoid excessive costs and efforts of achieving and maintaining compliance with PCI DSS. |
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Expertise of compliance consultants, cybersecurity experts and software developers: we will competently guide you on both the administrative and technical aspects of PCI DSS. |
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A smooth path from consulting to implementation: we are ready to take over any remediation actions needed to achieve PCI DSS compliance. |
Consulting on PCI-compliant software development
- Helping make security an integral part of SDLC according to the PCI SSF.
- Recommendations on resilient architecture and security features to create PCI-compliant software.
Establishing PCI compliance
- Evaluating the existing security policies, procedures and controls for cardholder data protection.
- Developing a remediation plan to fix existing compliance gaps and fully meet PCI DSS requirements.
Maintaining PCI DSS compliance
- Guidance on establishing the secure development process in line with PCI SSF.
- Consulting on software and IT infrastructure management to meet the requirements of the latest PCI DSS version (4.0).
Become and Stay PCI Compliant!
When it comes to PCI DSS compliance, there is no time to spare: your business viability is at stake. Keeping in line with PCI security requirements enables you to avoid the destructive consequences of cardholder data breaches and ensure business continuity.
PCI non-compliance risks
- Losing the right to accept payment cards.
- Reputational losses.
- Legal issues.
- Fines for PCI DSS violation.
- Breach remediation costs.
- Client loss.
PCI compliance benefits
- Reliable cardholder data protection.
- Secured merchant account.
- Reputation of a reliable business.
- Client loyalty.
- Increased customer appeal of your service or product.
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