PCI DSS Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical PCI DSS Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any PCI DSS related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated PCI DSS specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the PCI DSS Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which PCI DSS improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. What training and awareness programs must be in place for personnel responsible for managing and maintaining dial-up connections, and how must they be educated on the risks and responsibilities associated with secure transmission of cardholder data?
   
   

2. What requirements are in place for secure transmission of cardholder data over dial-up connections during periods of high network traffic or congestion, and how must these connections be prioritized or throttled to prevent data loss or corruption?
   
   

3. How do you ensure that all entities involved in the transmission of cardholder data have implemented secure transmission protocols and technologies, and what mechanisms are in place to detect and respond to non-compliance?
   
   

4. How must dial-up connections be isolated from other networks and systems to prevent cross-contamination of malware or other security threats, and what measures must be in place to prevent the spread of malware?
   
   

5. What requirements are in place for secure transmission of cardholder data over dial-up connections during disaster recovery or business continuity scenarios, and how must these scenarios be tested and updated?
   
   

6. How must dial-up connections be configured to prevent denial-of-service attacks or other types of malicious activity, and what measures must be in place to detect and respond to potential security incidents?
   
   

7. Are there any specific requirements for securing transmission of sensitive authentication data over infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) applications, and are there any additional security measures required?
   
   

8. What type of encryption is required to protect cardholder data on backup media, and is it acceptable to use the same encryption method for backup media as for storage of cardholder data in databases?
   
   

9. What are the escalation procedures in place for situations where an individual requires access to cardholder data for a specific task or project, but their role does not normally require such access?
   
   

10. What requirements are in place for secure transmission of cardholder data over dial-up connections during maintenance or upgrade activities, and how must these activities be documented and approved?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the PCI DSS book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your PCI DSS self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the PCI DSS Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which PCI DSS areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough PCI DSS Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage PCI DSS projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step PCI DSS Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 PCI DSS project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Is accountability placed at the lowest-possible level within the PCI DSS project so that decisions can be made at that level?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: (Cpi), and schedule performance index (spi) for the PCI DSS project?
   
   

3. Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that are strongly related to the complexity and size?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: What other risks are created by choosing an avoidance strategy?
   
   

5. Activity Duration Estimates: How many different communications channels does a PCI DSS project team with six people have?
   
   

6. Lessons Learned: How effective was each PCI DSS project Team member in fulfilling his/her role?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Audits: when was your last independent public accountant (ipa) audit and what were the results?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Does your organization maintain a current file of vendors and vendor catalogues?
   
   

9. Lessons Learned: Does the lesson educate others to improve performance?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Does the individual having check-signing responsibility review the use of the signature plates?


 
Step-by-step and complete PCI DSS Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 PCI DSS project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 PCI DSS project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 PCI DSS project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 PCI DSS project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 PCI DSS project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 PCI DSS project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any PCI DSS project with this in-depth PCI DSS Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose PCI DSS projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in PCI DSS and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make PCI DSS investments work better.

This PCI DSS All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.