PCI DSS compliance services

PCI DSS scope optimization

Many organizations struggle with PCI environments that have grown overly complex, expensive to manage and difficult to understand. Our PCI DSS scope optimization services help you gain clarity about your cardholder data environment, identify opportunities to reduce compliance burden and create a more efficient path to compliance.

We work with your organization to analyze payment flows, evaluate network segmentation, identify cardholder data exposure and develop strategies that reduce the size and complexity of your PCI environment. Through targeted assessments and architecture recommendations, we help you establish a defensible PCI scope that can lower compliance costs, reduce assessment effort and improve operational efficiency.

The result is a streamlined payment environment that enables your organization to focus resources where they matter most while maintaining confidence in your compliance posture.

PCI DSS readiness and compliance transformation

Preparing for a PCI DSS assessment should not be an exercise in uncertainty. Our PCI DSS readiness and compliance transformation services help you understand your organization’s current compliance posture, prioritize remediation efforts and build a roadmap toward successful assessment outcomes.

Our advisors perform comprehensive readiness reviews, maturity assessments and gap analyses to identify areas of risk before they become audit findings. We help your organization prioritize remediation activities, align stakeholders around business priorities and prepare for evolving PCI DSS requirements.

Beyond assessment readiness, we help transform compliance programs into efficient, repeatable processes that support long-term resilience. You gain greater visibility into compliance risks, improved program maturity and a clear path toward sustainable readiness with fewer surprises during assessment cycles.

Payment architecture and transformation

As payment technologies continue to evolve, your organization must balance innovation with security and compliance requirements. Our payment architecture and transformation services help your organization modernize payment ecosystems while maintaining alignment with PCI DSS objectives.

We assist your organization with evaluating current-state payment architectures, designing future-state environments and assessing modernization initiatives involving cloud, hybrid and emerging payment technologies. Our advisors provide guidance on secure payment design, tokenization strategies, infrastructure transformation and compliance-focused architecture reviews.

By integrating security and compliance considerations into transformation initiatives from the beginning, your organization can accelerate modernization efforts while reducing risk. The result is a scalable, future-ready payment architecture that supports business growth without compromising security or compliance.

PCI DSS governance and program development

Achieving compliance is important, but maintaining it requires strong governance. Our PCI DSS governance and program development services help your organization establish the structure, accountability and oversight necessary to manage PCI compliance as an ongoing business process.

We work with leadership teams to design governance frameworks, define ownership and responsibility models, develop meaningful performance metrics and modernize compliance operating models. Through executive reporting, risk oversight and program development initiatives, we help your organization create sustainable compliance programs that extend beyond annual assessments.

The outcome is stronger accountability across the enterprise, improved visibility into compliance risks and a governance model that supports continuous improvement and long-term success.

PCI DSS sustainment and managed advisory

Maintaining PCI DSS compliance throughout the year can strain internal resources and create operational challenges. Our PCI DSS sustainment and managed advisory services provide ongoing guidance, oversight and specialized experience to help your organization remain assessment-ready at all times.

We support your organization through continuous compliance activities, periodic health checks, evidence management, executive reporting and strategic advisory services. Your organization can also leverage our experienced virtual PCI leadership, including virtual internal security assessor (vISA) and virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) support, to strengthen internal capabilities and provide guidance when needed.

In addition, we help you address third-party risk management and other governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements while enabling more efficient compliance operations. The result is year-round readiness, increased confidence in compliance outcomes and access to trusted advisors who help keep payment security programs moving forward.

A connected advisory journey

Our advisory portfolio is designed around the real-world challenges your organization faces throughout the payment security lifecycle. Your organization can engage with a specific need, such as assessment readiness or payment modernization, and expand into complementary services as your program evolves. This connected approach helps your organization optimize, prepare, transform, govern and sustain your PCI DSS program through a single, integrated advisory framework that delivers measurable business value, stronger security outcomes and lasting compliance success.

PCI ASV scanning

As an ASV, RSM provides full-service and self-service external vulnerability scanning options for internet-facing systems. Depending on the selected delivery model, services may include scan execution, pass-or-fail reporting, remediation guidance, rescan support and quarterly attestation support.

PCI penetration testing

RSM evaluates internal networks, external systems, applications and segmentation controls to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Testing is aligned with applicable PCI DSS requirements and provides actionable findings to strengthen security and support compliance validation.

Network segmentation testing

Where segmentation is used to reduce PCI DSS scope, RSM tests whether segmentation controls effectively isolate the CDE from out-of-scope networks and systems. Results help organizations identify pathways that could expand scope or expose payment environments to risk.

Internal vulnerability scanning

RSM performs internal vulnerability scanning and analysis across servers, workstations, network devices and other applicable systems. Reporting includes validated findings and practical remediation recommendations to help strengthen the internal security posture and support PCI DSS compliance activities.