PCI DSS Compliance Consulting
Scope reduction, gap assessment against PCI DSS v4.0.1, remediation, and SAQ or ROC preparation from senior consultants who take merchants and service providers through validation.
PCI DSS compliance consulting takes an organization from an unclear cardholder data environment to a validated assessment. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a contractual requirement, enforced by the card brands through your acquiring bank, and it applies to any organization that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data. The current version is v4.0.1, and the future-dated requirements introduced in v4.0 became mandatory on March 31, 2025, so every control in the standard is now in force. BD Emerson is not a QSA company and does not sign Reports on Compliance. We work on your side of the assessment: shrinking scope, assessing gaps across the 12 requirements, fixing what fails, and preparing the SAQ or the ROC evidence your QSA will test. That separation is deliberate, because the firm preparing you should have no stake in passing you.
We map cardholder data flows first, then cut scope with segmentation, tokenization, or a hosted payment page before assessing a single control. Descoping is the highest-return move in PCI because every cost that follows is proportional to scope.
The gap assessment runs against PCI DSS v4.0.1 with nothing deferred, since the last future-dated requirements came into force on March 31, 2025. You get a remediation plan with requirement numbers, owners, and dates.
Findings close in priority order, and each control produces its artifact when the work finishes, so evidence accumulates during remediation instead of being reconstructed in the assessment window.
We complete the SAQ with you or support the QSA's ROC fieldwork, then keep quarterly scans, annual training, and periodic reviews on schedule, so next year's assessment starts from current evidence.
BD Emerson is not a QSA company, so our advice is judged only on whether you validate. We prepare you, and an independent assessor examines you, which is the separation acquirers and enterprise customers expect to see.
The penetration testing Requirement 11.4 demands, internal, external, and segmentation validation, is performed by our own offensive security team and retested after fixes, while ASV scans run through PCI-approved vendors we coordinate.
Descoping is treated as the first deliverable because cost scales with scope. Segmentation, tokenization, and hosted payment pages routinely remove whole system groups from the CDE, and the savings recur every assessment year.
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BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.
BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.
Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.
Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence
Appsec maturity and application hardening.
BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.
BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.
We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.
Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.
Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.
Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.
We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.
We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.
Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.
Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.
Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.
We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.
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BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.
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From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.
BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.
BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.
From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.
BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.
BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.
