6 Steps to Overcoming PCI DSS Compliance Challenges in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments

A Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audit can be passed by complying with the bare minimum requirements, but that falls short of its purpose: to secure and protect cardholder data.

Meeting compliance is about passing an audit at a specific point in time and also maintaining it after the audit. The real challenge is sustaining continuous compliance to avoid costly breaches at the hands of motivated and skilled adversaries.

Indeed, as detailed in Verizon's "2018 Payment Security Report," nearly half (47.5%) of the organizations assessed did not maintain all PCI DSS controls.

But this failure to sustain PCI DSS compliance isn’t due to a lack of security tools; most organizations have lots of them. What they’re missing is PCI expertise or the dedicated staff1 required to keep pace—a problem that is only compounded by the growing use of cloud services. Organizations are rapidly moving to highly scalable, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments, which adds layers of compliance complexity and blurs the lines of responsibility.

This eBook examines the challenges inherent in achieving continuous PCI DSS compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid landscapes and what to look for in evaluating solutions and service providers that can address those complexities.