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Control Gap is Canada’s largest PCI compliance company
PCI Compliance
There is no need to struggle with PCI DSS compliance requirements.
We help you along your journey to achieve and maintain compliance. Control Gap is Canada’s largest PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance company with experts in PCI compliance validation and advisory services.
Scope Validation
Scope is everything - understanding where payment card data is allows you to focus efforts and attention on the right components. Control Gap will understand your unique business processes and produce a scope report to help you communicate your PCI challenge.
Readiness Review
Everyone thinks they are ready. Control Gap assesses the current state of your PCI DSS controls to help organizations avoid the pitfalls of jumping into validation too soon. We produce remediation recommendations to define the roadmap to compliance.
Advisory Consulting
Every organization has too few people and too many things to do. When new business or PCI initiatives develop, you need expertise capable of looking at all aspects of a project from a PCI perspective. Control Gap has the expertise and personnel to provide ongoing support when and as required.
Operational Compliance
Every team needs a good coach. Control Gap can be the coach to guide your business units to ensure continuous improvement and integration of PCI Controls into business as usual activities. We make your annual compliance effort less stressful and easier to maintain PCI DSS compliance!
Risk Assessment
Control Gap performs risk assessments and produces actionable recommendations to remediate identified threats and vulnerabilities that could negatively impact the security of cardholder data, and the surrounding environment.
Report on Compliance (ROC)
The PCI ROC is a point-in-time assessment, performed by our knowledgeable Qualified Security Assessors (PCI QSAs). We Leverage our experience and understanding to validate your environment against the PCI DSS. We ensure your review is thorough, defensible, and accurate to reflect the scope of your payment environment.
Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ)
There are eight different SAQ questionnaires available and determining which one applies to you may be challenging. Control Gap can assist you with identifying the appropriate SAQ and ensure you know what each applicable requirement means to your business. It looks easy, but it’s not.
Managed ASV Scanning
Quarterly external vulnerability scans are required to meet your PCI validation obligations. Control Gap can manage your ASV scanning effort and take the headache out of understanding the vulnerabilities that threaten your environment.
Penetration Testing
Control Gap leverages industry leading tools and expertise to identify security flaws and vulnerabilities within your infrastructure and applications that require remediation. Control Gap also ensures that segmentation tests are performed to ensure your scope is protected.
Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)
Control Gap prepares and validates payment solutions eligible to complete a formal Point-to-Point Report of Validation (P-ROV). We like to consider P2PE solutions the battleships of the payment industry. They give organizations the comfort they are protected through significant PCI scope reduction, gained by leveraging a P2PE solution.
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