PCI DSS Compliance Assessment
Handle card payments without handling the risk badly. We assess your environment against PCI DSS, help you reduce scope, and prepare you for your SAQ or QSA assessment so cardholder data stays protected.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- PCI DSS scoping and cardholder-data-environment mapping
- Gap assessment against the current PCI DSS version
- Scope-reduction and segmentation strategy
- Requirement-by-requirement remediation guidance
- Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) support
- QSA-assessment preparation for larger merchants
What you receive
- PCI DSS gap-assessment report
- Cardholder-data-environment scope diagram
- Prioritised remediation plan
- SAQ completion support
- Executive summary
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Formal validation by a QSA or your acquirer where required
- Implementation performed by your organisation
- No storage or handling of real card data during assessment
- Advisory engagement
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Can you reduce our PCI scope?
- Often, yes. Techniques like network segmentation and outsourcing card handling to compliant providers can dramatically shrink your cardholder-data environment — and with it, your cost and effort.
- Do we need a QSA?
- It depends on your merchant level and card volume. Many smaller merchants self-assess via an SAQ, which we support; larger merchants need a QSA, and we prepare you for that assessment.
- What do you need from us?
- How you accept and process payments, network diagrams, and details of any payment service providers you use. We map your true scope from there.
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