PCI Compliance Consulting Services

Continuous Compliance and Operationalized Security for Merchants, Service Providers, and Payment Environments 

PCI DSS compliance can place a significant burden on organizations that store, process, transmit, or can impact the security of cardholder data, requiring continuous oversight, documentation, vulnerability management, access controls, security testing, and evidence collection across the cardholder data environment.

Avertium’s PCI DSS and security experts help merchants, service providers, processors, and payment technology organizations build and maintain a secure, assessment-ready environment through a combination of compliance expertise, cybersecurity operations, security testing, and Microsoft security solutions. 

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Avertium provides the expertise, technology, and ongoing support needed to achieve measurable compliance and security outcomes 

  • Conduct a RoC or SAQ attestation of compliance

  • Build solid policies and procedures

  • Address security gaps

  • Provide penetration testing and ASV scanning

  • Strengthen defenses against unauthorized access to the CDE

PCI COMPLIANCE CONSULTING EXPERTISE

Navigating PCI DSS requirements requires more than regulatory awareness: It demands experienced advisors who understand PCI DSS v4.x requirements, cardholder data environments, scoping, segmentation, evidence expectations, and the operational realities of payment security.
Avertium’s Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) help organizations understand, implement, validate, and maintain the controls required to protect cardholder data, reduce assessment complexity, and support continuous compliance with confidence:

Compliance Guidance

Guide merchants, service providers, processors, financial institutions, and payment technology companies through the rigorous process of PCI DSS compliance and attestation readiness. 

CDE Scope Definition + Gap Remediation

Define where cardholder data is stored, processed, or transmitted. Validate segmentation; identify control gaps; and build remediation roadmaps that strengthen security and compliance outcomes. 

PCI DSS Controls Expertise

Provide deep expertise and decades of experience across PCI DSS requirements, including network security controls, secure configurations, vulnerability management, access control, logging and monitoring, security testing, and information security policies. 

Continuous Compliance

Help organizations move beyond point-in-time attestation to establish continuous control review, stronger cardholder data protection, and mature payment security practices. Learn more about Managed PCI.

Attestation Readiness

Deliver RoC or SAQ readiness support, evidence guidance, policy and procedure creation, and ongoing compliance supervision throughout the PCI DSS lifecycle.

Why PCI Compliance is Challenging

Merchants, service providers, and payment organizations face increasing pressure to protect payment account data while meeting complex PCI DSS obligations. PCI DSS requires organizations to maintain secure networks and systems, protect cardholder data, manage vulnerabilities, enforce strong access controls, monitor and test networks, and maintain an information security policy.

Unfortunately, many organizations struggle with:

 Adapting to PCI DSS v4.x requirements with limited staffing or expertise

  Defining and minimizing PCI DSS scope across complex payment environments

 Maintaining secure configurations, vulnerability management, and segmentation controls

 Collecting evidence and maintaining audit readiness throughout the year

 Managing third-party service provider risk, cloud platforms, and shared responsibility models

Our PCI compliance consultants help organizations move beyond periodic attestation exercises to build a sustainable, security-first program that protects cardholder data, reduces compliance risk, and supports smoother PCI DSS validation to avoid costly PCI violations and penalties.

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KEY BENEFITS OF AVERTIUM'S PCI COMPLIANCE SERVICES

 Extend internal teams and simplify operations by combining PCI DSS compliance assessments, managed security services, offensive security testing, governance, and ongoing monitoring under a single experienced payment security and compliance partner. 

Reduce Compliance Risk

Identify and remediate security and compliance gaps through PCI DSS readiness assessments, gap analyses, segmentation reviews, and ongoing advisory services that reduce assessment friction and compliance exposure.

Protect Electronic PHI

Strengthen security with identity management, multi-factor authentication, encryption support, network security controls, endpoint protection, logging, monitoring, and Zero Trust practices designed to safeguard payment account data. 

Achieve Continuous Compliance

Move beyond the stress of annual validation cycles with ongoing control oversight, evidence collection, vulnerability management, security testing, and reporting that support PCI DSS compliance year-round.

Accelerate Threat Detection and Response

Leverage 24x7 XDR + MDR, AI-assisted analytics, and expert security operations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats that could impact payment systems, cardholder data, or compliance obligations.

Support PCI DSS Requirements

Align security programs with PCI DSS objectives across secure networks, cardholder data protection, vulnerability management, access control, logging, monitoring, testing, and security governance.

Improve PCI Readiness

Proactively generate the proper documentation, reporting, evidence, and compliance artifacts needed to support your PCI DSS report on compliance or self-attested questionnaire and executive reporting requirements.

 

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Maximize Microsoft Security Investments

Organizations often already own Microsoft security capabilities through Microsoft 365 E3, E5, and E7 licenses, but many struggle to fully configure, integrate, monitor, and optimize them for payment security and PCI DSS readiness.

By combining deep Microsoft expertise with PCI compliance experience, Avertium helps organizations get more value from their Microsoft security investments by configuring, integrating, and managing Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Purview, Intune, and related technologies to strengthen cardholder data protection, improve threat visibility, and reduce compliance risk.

ASSESS AND OPTIMIZE MICROSOFT SECURITY CONTROLS

Identify misconfigurations, coverage gaps, and underused capabilities across Microsoft Defender XDR to strengthen detection, response, and protection for systems that store, process, or transmit cardholder data.

STRENGTHEN ACCESS, DATA, AND DEVICE SAFEGUARDS

Use Microsoft Entra ID, Purview, and Intune to enforce MFA, conditional access, DLP, sensitivity labeling, compliance, workflows, secure management and more for cardholder data environments.

MONITOR AND RESPOND TO THREATS AFFECTING PAYMENT SYSTEMS

Continuously review, investigate, and escalate Microsoft security telemetry through Fusion MXDR for Microsoft XDR + MDR service to reduce breach risk, support incident response, and protect cardholder data.

MAP MICROSOFT CONTROLS TO HIPAA SAFEGUARDS

Demonstrate how the Microsoft environment supports PCI DSS control objectives while helping organizations strengthen evidence, reporting, and attestation readiness. 

Why Organizations Choose Avertium

  Security + Compliance in One Trusted Partner

Reduce complexity by unifying 24x7 cybersecurity operations, compliance consulting and assessment, and security testing.

  Payment Security Confidence

Benefit from experienced PCI security and compliance professionals who understand cardholder data environments and enforcement realities.

  Proactive Compliance Readiness

Smoothly move from reactive, last-minute compliance preparation to a proactive, year-round readiness model.
 

  Attestation-Ready Documentation

Generate and understand the evidence, reports, and compliance artifacts needed to support audits, assessments, and executive reporting.

  AI-powered Security Operations

Combine advanced analytics, automation, and experienced security experts for faster threat detection and response.

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AVERTIUM SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT SECURITY

HOW IT WORKS

Comprehensive Approach to PCI Compliance

Avertium applies our Assess, Design, Protect approach to fuse compliance, security operations, risk management, and continuous validation into a single program designed to help organizations secure their systems and maintain PCI alignment year-round.

ASSESS

Avertium’s PCI compliance consulting services identify CDE scope, control gaps, segmentation weaknesses, vulnerability risks, and compliance deficiencies before they become attestation findings or security incidents.

DESIGN

Our QSAs develop governance, policies, controls, remediation roadmaps, segmentation strategies, and compliance workflows that align payment operations with PCI DSS requirements and business goals.

PROTECT

Avertium implements and operates the security controls necessary to  safeguard cardholder data, reduce cyber risk, support incident response, validate controls, and maintain continuous alignment with PCI DSS requirements.

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Whether you are a merchant, service provider, processor, financial institution, or payment technology company, Avertium can help you build a stronger security posture, reduce compliance risk, and maintain continuous PCI DSS readiness.

Protect cardholder data. Reduce risk. Stay attestation  ready. Partner with Avertium to operationalize PCI compliance year-round.

 

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