PCI DSS

The PCI Security Standards Council is an international organization that established the Payment Card Industry standards for securing cardholder data around the world.  The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has created more than 250 technical and operational requirements to protect credit card data.   

If your organization accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card information, you are subject to complliance.  PCI DSS standards form a comprehensive cybersecurity framework and outline best practices that Columbia Advisory Group can help you implement.

Columbia Advisory Group helps organizations manage and simplify PCI-DSS 3.2 reporting with our portal that streamlines continuous compliance and security control effectiveness.  As a Managed IT Service Provider and Managed Security Service Provider we help organizations:

• Monitor access to card holder data on-premises and in the cloud
• Provide real-time alerts based on business risks posed by payment card data
• Perform continuous vulnerability scanning of internal and external networks, and endpoints
• Implement secure configuration policies based on security controls benchmarks
• Identify and prioritize vulnerabilities based on threat exposure, assets, and severity
• Audit system access, authentication, and other security controls to detect policy violations
• Automatically detect and scan new devices as they enter the network
• Create, assign, track, and verify remediation tasks
• Demonstrate compliance and communicate progress with reports, analytics, and live dashboards