PCI Readiness
Determine your current state of PCI compliance and readiness to undergo a formal QSA audit or complete the appropriate Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). Valorr helps you to understand areas of noncompliance and develop a formal strategy to maintain compliance across the enterprise.

PCI Readiness Assessment
Organizations that accept credit card payments must comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS), a set of requirements intended to protect the security of cardholder data. The penalties for noncompliance are steep and include fines, elevated transaction fees, reputational damage, and, finally, an inability to accept credit card payments.
As businesses and compliance obligations evolve, confusion arises around PCI requirements. Valorr makes the process less daunting by providing prioritized, concrete remediation recommendations to help you achieve and sustain compliance.
Our Approach
Our readiness assessment is built to align with regulatory requirements and enhanced with industry-recognized security frameworks, including the NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, CIS Top 20, and PCI DSS. We leverage an established capability maturity model index (CMMI) to objectively evaluate your program and provide realistic maturity rankings across industry standards.
Phase 1
Project Planning
Project Planning
Phase 2
Program Analysis
Program Analysis
Phase 3
Strategic Roadmap
Strategic Roadmap
Phase 1:
Project Planning and Kick-Off
During Phase 1, the Valorr team collaborates with you to establish the objectives and scope for this engagement, as well as communication methods and a cadence for status reporting. Following this initial step, we coordinate document and interview requests with your team.
- Clear engagement objectives
- Established communication methods
- Document and interview requests
Phase 2:
Program Analysis
During Phase 2, our team holds both on-site and remote discovery sessions with key stakeholder and subject matter experts within your organization. Following this step, our team builds a current state gap analysis of your policies, procedures and technologies against industry standards.
Using our Capability Maturity Model, we evaluate each domain across your security program. As a result of this analysis, we are able to identify process inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
- Analysis of the current conditions of your IT infrastructure, business processes and utilized technologies
- Identify process inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
- Understanding of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business systems.
Phase 3:
Strategic Roadmap
In the final phase of the Valorr assessment, our team communicates the findings of our analysis to your leadership team, helping you gain executive buy-in for the most immediate risks facing your organization.
During this phase, we establish achievable target cyber maturity goals for your program, provide future state recommendations and deliver an action-based roadmap for short-term and long term cyber maturity.
- Alignment across cybersecurity priorities, organizational objectives and policies.
- Improved decision-making around the level of risk associated with the current business environment.
- More efficient resource allocation
- Increased investment in future projects
Different From the Rest
At Valor, we take a different approach to implementing and managing cybersecurity.
Actionable Deliverables
Our assessment process doesn't just point out your weaknesses and the urgent need for change. It provides clear, action-based guidance for addressing key security risks and improving your overall risk posture.
Ongoing Support
We never deliver a report and leave our partners, we often stay onboard to help them implement our recommendations and mature their programs. We work hard to collaboratively help execute your strategic roadmap.
End-to-End Services
Valor provides a full lifecycle suite of services and end to end support services. We have experts in security program development, data privacy and business resilience to help you improve across all risk domains.
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