PCI Compliance Dashboard Replacing Spreadsheet Evidence Collection for Security Teams
Security teams at companies processing credit card payments must demonstrate PCI DSS compliance through quarterly audits. The evidence collection process involves tracking 300+ controls across 12 requirement categories, gathering screenshots, logs, and policy documents from multiple systems, and organizing them for the QSA auditor. Most companies manage this in spreadsheets, shared drives, and email chains, a process that takes 200+ hours per audit cycle. A PCI compliance dashboard that centralizes evidence collection, tracks control status, and generates audit-ready reports would save security teams weeks of manual work per quarter.
Problem Statement
A 50-person fintech's security team manages PCI compliance using a 400-row spreadsheet, a shared Google Drive with 2,000+ evidence files, and quarterly email chains to 8 system owners asking for updated screenshots and logs. Each quarterly audit cycle takes 200+ hours: 80 hours gathering evidence from 12 systems, 60 hours organizing and labeling files, 40 hours mapping evidence to controls, and 20 hours generating the report for the QSA. When the QSA requests additional evidence during the audit, the team scrambles to locate files across Drive folders, Slack threads, and email attachments. A dashboard showing real-time control status, centralized evidence storage, and one-click report generation would reduce quarterly audit preparation from 200 to 40 hours.
The Idea
A PCI DSS compliance management dashboard that centralizes control tracking, evidence collection, remediation workflows, and audit-ready report generation, replacing the spreadsheet-and-shared-drive process that costs security teams 200+ hours per audit cycle.
Why Now
PCI DSS v4.0 took effect in March 2025 with 64 new requirements and significant changes to existing controls. Every company processing card payments must update their compliance programs. The transition from v3.2.1 to v4.0 creates a natural switching point where teams re-evaluate their compliance tools. Cloud-native infrastructure has made evidence collection more complex (multi-cloud, containers, serverless) while also making API-based evidence gathering more feasible.
Target User
Information security managers and compliance officers at mid-market companies ($10M-$500M revenue) who manage PCI DSS compliance using spreadsheets and shared drives
Target Market
PCI DSS compliance management and GRC tools for mid-market companies
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