For the person who has to sign, pci dss compliance software is bought by a merchant or service provider that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data the week the spreadsheet stops being enough: the obligations are in one tab, the evidence in a shared drive, the attestations in email, and the examiner is asking for all three at once. The software's job is to keep the in-scope systems, the requirements assessed, the quarterly scans and the evidence behind each control as one record with a status, and, if it is any good, to work the figures the compliance officer otherwise estimates: how many evidence items a full attestation needs and how many reviewer hours that is, how many days an audit scope takes, how many gaps to expect and what they cost to close. This page says what pci dss compliance software must keep, what it should compute, and where the free sheets on this site do that computation now, from the program's own numbers, with no account.
What pci dss compliance software must keep
For a merchant or service provider that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data, the record is the in-scope systems, the requirements assessed, the quarterly scans and the evidence behind each control, each with an owner, a date and a status, and each linked to the obligation it satisfies. Software that keeps those as separate lists has a shared drive with a login; software that links them can answer the examiner's question about any one of them as a lookup. The test in a demo is one screen for one obligation with its controls, evidence and last attestation on it. Attestvio Pro keeps exactly that record for a regulated small business, and the free sheets on this site work its arithmetic without any record at all.
Why the search is pci dss compliance software
The words in pci dss compliance software are the words a merchant or service provider that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data uses when the obligation has a name and the program does not yet have a number. The name is the regulator's, linked below; the number is the program's own, and it is the count of obligations, controls and evidence items behind PCI DSS turned into reviewer hours on the obligations register sheet and into audit days on the audit scope sheet. A program that searches pci dss compliance software and comes away with those two figures has done the first day of the work, and the paid plan on this site keeps what follows: the record, with owners, dates and the attestation that closes each period.
Judging pci dss compliance software for a small business
Bring the sheets' figures to the demo: the register's items and hours, the audit's days, the expected gaps and their cost. Ask the vendor to show the same numbers from its demo data, ask what it costs to run for a program of that size rather than to license, and ask how the record exports on the day the contract ends. The guide this page supports covers the questions for a regulatory compliance consultant, which is the other half of the same decision. Attestvio Pro keeps the record at one flat price; the sheets stay free either way.
What pci dss compliance software should compute
The evidence load a register puts on its reviewers and the months to a full attestation; the days an audit scope needs and the share the days available cover; the gaps an audit will find at the program's own gap rate and what they cost to remediate; the incident hours and the case backlog's months to clear; the training seats outstanding. Each is a free sheet on this site, and for PCI DSS the one to start with is the PCI scope sheet, which works the figure a merchant or service provider that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data is measured on first. Software that computes those from the live record has understood the job; software that offers a report builder has not.
A dss audit, and the self assessment questionnaire that avoids one
Which route applies depends on how card data reaches you and how much of it there is, and the two routes cost very differently. A self assessment questionnaire is completed by the organization itself against the subset of requirements its acceptance channel brings, and for a small merchant using a hosted payment page that subset is short. An on site assessment by a qualified assessor is a paid engagement with fieldwork. The move worth making before either is scope reduction: the fewer systems that store, process or transmit card data, the shorter the route. The PCI scope sheet on this site works which systems fall in.
What is pci compliance manager, and the roles the standard names
The phrase is used two ways and both are worth separating. Several acquirers and vendors sell a product by that name, which is a portal for completing the questionnaire and tracking scans. The standard itself names no such role; it expects the entity to assign responsibility for its security policy and program, and it defines qualified assessors and approved scanning vendors as external parties. So a question about a compliance manager is either about buying a portal or about naming an internal owner, and the answer to the second is a person on the register with the program against their name.
Questions people ask about pci dss compliance software
What does pci dss compliance software do?
It keeps the in-scope systems, the requirements assessed, the quarterly scans and the evidence behind each control as one linked record with a status, and works the figures the program runs on: evidence load, audit days, expected gaps, incident hours, case backlog, training seats. The free sheets on this site work the figures; the paid plan keeps the record.
Does a small business need pci dss compliance software?
It needs the record and the arithmetic; whether it needs an enterprise product to get them depends on the program's size. Work the PCI scope sheet first; a program whose reviewers can carry the load with a flat-price record does not need a platform.
What does pci dss compliance software cost?
Enterprise products quote after a call and this site publishes no figure for them. Attestvio Pro is $29 a month for the whole program, and every sheet on the site is free with no account.