Free PCI DSS Compliance Checklist
Evaluate your PCI DSS compliance posture in minutes
Answer eight questions about your organization's cardholder data security practices and get a compliance score, gap analysis, and prioritized remediation plan. Covers key PCI DSS requirements including firewall configuration, cardholder data protection, encryption, access control, and network monitoring.
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How it works
How PCI DSS Compliance Checklist works
Answer 8 questions
Complete a short questionnaire covering key PCI DSS requirements: firewall configuration, default passwords, cardholder data protection, encryption, anti-malware, secure development, access control, and network monitoring.
Get your compliance score
Your answers are scored against PCI DSS v4.0 requirements to produce an overall compliance percentage and per-requirement breakdown.
Receive a remediation plan
Get a personalized gap analysis with a prioritized 90-day action plan covering specific remediation steps to achieve PCI DSS compliance.
Features
What PCI DSS Compliance Checklist checks
Covers all six PCI DSS goal categories
Evaluates your organization across the six PCI DSS goals: build and maintain a secure network, protect cardholder data, manage vulnerabilities, implement access controls, monitor and test networks, and maintain an information security policy.
Assess cardholder data protection and encryption
Checks whether you properly protect stored cardholder data with encryption, truncation, or tokenization, and encrypt data in transit — the requirements most directly tied to preventing breaches.
Evaluate network security and monitoring
Reviews whether you have properly configured firewalls, deploy anti-malware, and conduct regular network monitoring and vulnerability scanning — critical for maintaining a secure cardholder data environment.
Get a prioritized compliance roadmap
Generates a concrete, prioritized action plan with specific remediation tasks, estimated timelines, and resource requirements to close compliance gaps before your next assessment.
Use cases
Who should use the free PCI DSS Compliance Checklist
E-Commerce Companies
Assess your PCI DSS compliance posture and identify gaps in how you handle cardholder data. Prioritize remediation before your next quarterly scan or annual assessment.
Payment Processors
Evaluate your compliance across all PCI DSS requirements and ensure your infrastructure meets the standards required for processing payment card transactions.
IT Security Teams
Get a baseline compliance score and gap analysis to plan remediation work. Map existing controls to PCI DSS requirements and identify what needs to be built or improved.
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