PCI QSA

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.

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Compliance Services

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.

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Service Overview

PCI-DSS Compliance Assessment

Our clients have two primary concerns when it comes to PCI DSS compliance: time and value. MegaplanIT’s PCI DSS Plus program is an all-in-one solution for PCI compliance designed specifically to address these concerns.

Our bundled compliance solution takes a streamlined approach both on and off-site to get your business ready for its next assessment and keep you compliant all year round. Our expert QSAs know how to effectively implement the processes your organization needs to protect cardholder data and keep sensitive information secure.

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Our Approach

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. 

  • One Proposal
  • One Set Of Services
  • Unique Scope of Client Environment
  • Pushing Towards Goal of Compliance Completion 

How It Works

Get To Know The In's & Out's Of The Assessment Process

Step One
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.
Step One
Step Two
Policy & Procedure Collection, Analysis, and Control Validation
At the beginning of this process, a MegaplanIT QSA will create an assessment folder specifically for your organization, which will be housed on our secure, centralized server. This folder will contain all the documents received during the PCI assessment process.
Step Two
Step Three
PCI DSS Gap Analysis - Pre Assessment
A MegaplanIT consultant will become and extention of your team, both on- and off-site to assess and control risks related to your unique environment. MegaplanIT will identify the specific PCI DSS regulations that apply to your business and focus on taking the proper steps needed to bring your cardholder environment into compliance. This "Pre-Assessment" gives us a picture of your existing strengths and weakness and can help reduce the scope and cost of your final PCI DSS Assessment
Step Three
Step Four
On-Site Validation & Draft Report On Compliance
The completion of the Validation and Draft Report on Compliance Requires that the QSA visits your organization's location to validate all the existing controls. THis will be accomplished by sampling live systems, databases, network devices, and applications that were determined to be in-scope for PCI Compliance. A MegaplanIT QSA will also collect follow-up evidence such as sample reports and/or captured screen prints, which will validate that security controls are in place and compliant with PCI Requirements.
Step Four
Step Five
Quality Assurance Program & Delivery of Final Report

Before submitting any reports to you the QSA must first pass their work through our quality assurance program. This requires a detailed review and validation of all the items to find within the report on compliance and attestation of compliance. If there or any discovered errors or unclear remarks the QA representative will ensure that there is a proper amount of detail that is contained in the documents as governed by the PCI council. 

The documents required to pass through the megaplanit: 

  • PCI assessment tracking tool (used to gather notes)
  • Draft report on compliance
  • attestation of compliance 
  • Internal and external scan results
  • Internal and external penetration testing results

 

Upon completion of the QA process, the managing consultant and QSA will forward hard and soft copies of the final PCI report on compliance to your organization's representative. With these files in hand Megaplanit, senior gateway manager and principal compliance consultant will schedule a remote call with your representative to review any additional comments within the final PCI report on compliance. To further improve on The client and assessor relationship the MegaplanIT team will hear any feedback that your representative may have.

Step Five

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With decades of experience, MegaplanIT has a proven record of excellence in developing accurate PCI-DSS compliance reports that provide the best value in the industry. Contact us today to find out how our PCI-DSS Plus Program can help your business save time and reduce costs.

Receive Two QSAs Per Assessment

We assign a primary and secondary QSA to every PCI-DSS assessment, so you can always reach a compliance expert when you need one. Our policy of assigning two QSAs provides greater flexibility with your schedule and more accurate compliance reports.

Get A Free PCI DSS Gap Analysis

To save you time and the cost of your PCI Assessment, we identify which services your business needs. Our goal is to have your organization prepared for the most recent iteration of the PCI-DSS standards, We do this by comparing your cardholder environment’s current security controls against the revised requirements. We then provide an analysis that includes a list of which controls need to be updated or replaced.

Policies and Procedures Development

Our policy and procedures assistance will alleviate the headaches (and costly mistakes) that many business owners run into while trying to develop these technical documents. Bundling this service with your PCI-DSS assessment will save you significant time and money.

Trusted Advisory and Remediation

Included Trusted Advisory and Remediation means that MegaplanIT will advise you with any system changes made throughout the year that might affect your PCI compliance status. This service may actually reduce the time and cost of your PCI assessment year after year!

PCI Compliance Project Management

Our compliance project management service monitors compliance deadlines and tracks the completion of milestones throughout the assessment. While our QSAs are conducting your assessment, our management team aligns the necessary resources to facilitate an on-time completion of your final report. 

What Our Clients Say

For the past four years, we have partnered with MegaplanIT for our annual PCI-DSS Level 1 audit. In addition to that annual work, we have also found them to be a great source of advice and best-practice recommendations; their expertise has helped us conceptualize and plan the robust, secure systems that our customers count on each day. Their team is a pleasure to work with, and we highly recommend their people and services.
Payments and Software CompanyChief Technology Officer
Our Security Consultant was extremely well organized, knowledgeable , personable and responsive. Our IT Director was extremely satisfied. I shopped for year one and MegaplanIT was the most reasonable and all-encompassing and you felt they were in it for a long term relationship. Do not hesitate to hire MegaplanIT they are very approachable and responsive. I heartily recommend them
Travel Related Technology and Payment SolutionsCEO
From sales to the final report (and everything in between), working with MegaplanIT has been a pleasure. Their vast PCI knowledge, along with their fast response times far exceeded my expectations. They truly understand PCI, and how that applies to our virtual environment. They are a great partner, and always try to make themselves available when we need them. A truly professional and dedicated team!
Payment Technology Merchant AcquirerCEO
I feel like their people truly "dig in" and try to find any issues that need patching or remediation. They do it in a non-condemning way, and always look to help us get through the remediation in the safest, fastest and secure way possible.
Payment Processing & E-Commerce SolutionsPresident & CEO
For 2018 there was no question who we would engage to help us get through the process. They were excellent and the process was easier the second time around.
Travel Related Technology and Payment SolutionsCEO
We selected MegaplanIT two years ago to help with our initial PCI DSS certification. As anyone who embarks on this task it is not easy and you need expert guidance and help. MegaplanIT was a great partner to get us through it.
Travel Related Technology and Payment SolutionsCEO
Our experience with MegaPlanIT has been excellent.  They did such an excellent job in all phases of our PCI projects that they closed the door for our considering another PCI assessor in the foreseeable future.
Health & Fitness CompanyCEO
We’ve used Megaplan IT for PCI-DSS and HIPAA certification over the past 5 years. They’ve always been professional leaders of information security and of PCI and HIPAA practices. Our auditors never hesitate to take the time to educate on the “why behind the what” when needed, which is definitely a value-add to the services MegaplanIT performs for us.
Technology Payment Solutions / Financial ServicesChief Information Officer
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  • 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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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.

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