Cardholder data pulls everything into scope
The moment card data touches a system, that system, its network segment and everyone with access are in scope. Scope creep here is the single largest driver of assessment cost.
By industry
Regulated by default, audited constantly
Payment security and audit readiness for regulated financial products.
You are carrying card data, a banking partner's due-diligence questionnaire and an enterprise buyer's security review at the same time — and all three want different evidence for substantially the same controls.
Where you are
The constraints at this stage
What tends to be true when companies come to us at this size.
Your banking partner audits you too
Sponsor banks and payment processors run their own due diligence on a schedule that has nothing to do with your certification calendar, and they ask for evidence in their own format.
The regulator and the buyer want different proof
One wants demonstrable control operation over time; the other wants a certificate and a completed questionnaire this quarter. Running those as separate programmes doubles the work.
What we run for you
The work itself
Delivered by our specialists, not handed to you as a template pack.
GRC ProgramOne control set, mapped across PCI DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, so a control is implemented once and evidenced once.ISO 27001The certification that travels internationally, and the management system your banking partners expect to see behind it.SOC 2Type I where a deal is waiting, Type II for the buyers who want proof the controls actually ran.VAPTApplication and infrastructure testing to the depth financial-sector reviews expect, with retests once findings are closed.Supply Chain SecurityYour processors, KYC vendors and data providers assessed and monitored — the third parties a regulator will ask about first.
How the engagement works
What actually happens
The same four beats every time, scoped to what this stage needs.
Scope the data flows
We map where card and customer financial data actually goes, then design the smallest defensible scope. This is where most of the cost is won or lost.
Build once, map many
A single control set with a crosswalk to each framework, so PCI, SOC 2 and ISO evidence comes from one implementation.
Evidence continuously
Controls produce evidence as they run, which is what makes a partner bank's mid-year request a lookup rather than a project.
Carry the assessments
We manage the auditors and assessors, sit in fieldwork, and answer findings — including the bank's own due-diligence rounds.
Proof
Track record
Across every engagement we have run, at every size.
0+
Companies Secured
Zero
Failed Audits
4-8
Weeks to Compliance
0+
Team Certifications
What you walk away with
The artefacts
Everything below is a thing you own at the end, not a promise about the process.
- Cardholder and customer data flow maps with a defensible scope boundary
- One control set crosswalked to PCI DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Network segmentation review and supporting evidence
- Penetration test and retest reports your buyers and partners accept
- A vendor register covering processors, KYC and data providers
- Completed certifications and attestation reports
- A reusable answer set for bank and enterprise due-diligence questionnaires
Related
Where to go next
The problems this stage usually arrives with, and the services behind them.
Questions
What people ask at this stage
We do the readiness and remediation work — scoping, segmentation, control implementation and evidence — and manage the relationship with your QSA through the assessment. The formal attestation itself is signed by a Qualified Security Assessor.
Segmentation and tokenisation, mostly. The fewer systems that store, process or transmit card data, the smaller the assessment. We map the flows first precisely because scope decisions made early determine the cost of everything after.
Yes. Bank due diligence draws on the same underlying controls as your certifications, so once the evidence exists the questionnaire is a mapping exercise. We maintain the answer set and keep it current between rounds.
Usually both eventually, and which comes first depends on your buyers. US enterprise buyers and many sponsor banks ask for SOC 2; international and Indian counterparties ask for ISO 27001. Built on one control set, the second costs far less than the first.
One programme, every assessor.
Tell us who is auditing you and on what cadence. We will show you how much of it is the same control evidenced three ways.