Your Path to Achieving PCI DSS Compliance

At MegaplanIT, we have a keen understanding of the challenge businesses face in passing compliance assessments and remaining compliant over time. Our PCI DSS assessment services are designed to keep your costs and level of effort down while making it easy to stay compliant year after year.

MegaplanIT PCI DSS+ Program

At MegaplanIT, PCI DSS compliance means more than just passing an audit—it’s about lasting security with minimal disruption. We assign dedicated QSA team members to ensure continuity and eliminate the need to re-explain your environment year after year. Acting as an extension of your team, we offer responsive, year-round support—without surprise fees. With trusted experience across retail, technology, finance, and healthcare, we help clients achieve compliance with confidence.

OUR DIFFERENTIATORS

Complimentary PCI DSS Gap Analysis

Cut PCI costs and save time by identifying only the services you need, highlighting control gaps against the latest PCI DSS standards.

Policy and Procedure Development

Our policy and procedure support helps you avoid costly mistakes and saves time—especially when bundled with your PCI DSS assessment.

Trusted Advisory and Remediation

Trusted Advisory and Remediation keeps you PCI compliant year-round and can reduce assessment time and costs annually.

PCI Compliance Project Management

Our compliance project management tracks milestones and deadlines, ensuring your assessment stays on schedule and your final report is delivered on time.

Complimentary PCI DSS Gap Analysis

Save time and money with your PCI Assessment by identifying which services your business needs

Policy and Procedure Development

Alleviate costly mistakes that business owners run into trying to develop these technical documents

Trusted Advisory and Remediation

Help from MegaplanIT Advisors through any system changes throughout the year that may affect your PCI compliance status

PCI Compliance Project Management

Monitoring compliance deadlines, tracking milestones throughout the assessment, and aligning necessary resources to facilitate on-time completion

Achieving PCI DSS Compliance is a challenge for every organization that stores, transmits, or processes credit card data. The problem boils down to two factors: time and cost. Compliance can be a long process that eats up company resources. Whether you are a Service Provider, Merchant, or ISO the PCI DSS+ Program offers a streamlined and cost-effective compliance process that will prepare your team for an assessment. Contact our team today if you would like to learn more.

HOW IT WORKS

Our PCI DSS Compliance Assessment Includes:

Review Project Scope

The first step is to initiate a kick-off that will include reviewing the MegaplanIT PCI Assessment Process, determine your scope and explain what documents will need to be collected. Our goal is to save you time so that your normal day workload will not be impeded on while you are in the assessment process.

Our Approach to PCI DSS Compliance

Our PCI DSS Plus program is an all-in-one solution for PCI DSS compliance that was designed to address these particular concerns. Our bundled compliance solution takes a streamlined approach, both on and off-site, to get your business ready for your next assessment and keep you compliant all year long. At MegaplanIT we focus on exactly what the client needs. 

PARTNERSHIP WITH MEGAPLANIT

One Proposal

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One Set of Services

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Unique Scope of Client Environment

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PCI DSS Compliance Completion

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full spectrum protection 24/7/365

PCI DSS Compliance Mapping with MSS Requirements

Based out of our state-of-the-art 24/7/365 Security Operations Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, we provide a suite of managed services to ensure your business stays safe from cybersecurity attacks.

Requirement 10.2

Automate & Verify

  • Implement automated audit trails for all system components to reconstruct the following events:
  • 10.2.1 Verify all individual access to cardholder data is logged.
  • 10.2.2 All actions were taken by any individual with root or administrative privileges
  • 10.2.3 Verify access to all audit trails is logged.
  • 10.2.4 Verify invalid logical access attempts are logged.

Record

  • Record at least the following audit trail entries for all system components for each event:
  • 10.3.1 User identification
  • 10.3.2 Type of event
  • 10.3.3 Date and time
  • 10.3.4 Success or failure indication
  • 10.3.5 Origination of event
  • 10.3.6 Identity or name of affected data, system component, or resource.

Audit Trails

  • Secure audit trails so they cannot be altered.
  • 10.5.1 Limit viewing of audit trails to those with a job-related need.
  • 10.5.2 Protect audit trail files from unauthorized modifications.
  • 10.5.3 Promptly back up audit trail files to a centralized log server or media that is difficult to alter.

Daily Reviews

  • 10.6.1 Review the following at least daily:
  • All security events
  • Logs of all system components that store, process, or transmit CHD and/or SAD
  • Logs of all critical system components
  • Logs of all servers and system components that perform security functions.
  • 10.2.4 Verify invalid logical access attempts are logged.

Monitor Traffic

  • Use intrusion-detection and/or intrusion-prevention techniques to detect and/or prevent intrusions into the network.
  • Monitor all traffic at the perimeter of the cardholder data environment as well as at critical points in the cardholder data environment, and alert personnel to suspected compromises.

Security Management

  • Assign to an individual or team the following information security management responsibilities:
  • 12.5.2 Monitor and analyze security alerts and information and distribute to appropriate personnel.
  • 12.5.5 Monitor and control all access to data.
  • 12.5.5 Verify that responsibility for monitoring and controlling all access to data is formally assigned.

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Partner with MegaplanIT to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance

Our innovative IT security and compliance solutions are designed to deliver customized, cost-effective service on time—because your priorities are our priorities. With a highly qualified team of PCI DSS QSAs, Penetration Testers, and Information Security Consultants here at MegaplanIT, we will assess your unique company and business environment and design a path to security that will fit all of your needs.

2022-2024 PCI SSC Global Executive Round Table Announcement

MegaplanIT joins the PCI Security Standards Council’s Global Executive Assessor Roundtable (GEAR).

News & Expertise

Your Security. Our Insights.

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