Take card payments without failing your assessment.
All 12 PCI DSS v4 requirements, evidence collected continuously, your SAQ or ROC kept ready - so your acquirer, your processor and your customers keep trusting you with cardholder data, year after year.
What is PCI DSS, and why do your acquirer and customers demand it?
PCI DSS is the global security standard (v4.0, mandatory since March 2025) for any business that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data - from the smallest merchant to Level 1 processors and service providers. It is not optional: your acquirer, your payment processor and your enterprise customers require a valid SAQ or Report on Compliance before they will let you touch card data. Fall out of compliance and the cost is real - monthly non-compliance fees, higher transaction rates, breach liability, and ultimately the loss of your ability to accept cards at all. Venvera keeps all 12 v4 requirements evidenced and your attestation ready, so payments never stop.
Nothing your QSA tests is left untracked.
PCI DSS v4 expands to 250+ testing procedures across the familiar 12 requirements. Venvera renders every sub-requirement with implementation status, applicable approach (defined or customized), control owner, evidence link, and the test procedure your QSA will run. Cross-mapping to ISO 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and SOC 2 means a control you implement once counts for the others wherever the requirements overlap.
- Every sub-requirement tracked individually, not just the top 12
- Defined approach and customized approach options per requirement
- Test procedure pre-loaded for QSA walkthroughs
- Cross-mapping to ISO 27001 Annex A, NIST CSF 2.0 and SOC 2 TSC
- Filter views per requirement, per CDE system, per applicability
Scope your CDE right before your QSA expands it.
Your CDE is the network of systems that store, process or transmit cardholder data, plus systems connected to those. Get the scope wrong and the QSA expands the audit. Venvera tags every asset with its CDE relationship (in-CDE, connected or segmented-out), tracks segmentation controls explicitly, and surfaces any system that drifts into scope. The annual scope validation produces itself from the live asset inventory and your data-flow diagrams.
- Asset register with explicit in-CDE, connected and out-of-scope tagging
- Segmentation control tracking across network, host and identity
- Drift alerts when a connected system gains CDE characteristics
- Data-flow diagrams kept current, not annually re-drawn
- Annual scope validation report generated from live state
The customized approach, documented the way your QSA wants it.
PCI DSS v4 introduces the customized approach: meet the requirement objective without following the defined sub-requirement procedure. The price is rigour - a documented targeted risk analysis, the customized approach objective, the implementation, and the testing your QSA will perform. Venvera captures all four for every control where you use it.
- Customized approach toggle per sub-requirement
- Targeted risk analysis template with a structured methodology
- Customized approach objective wording, vetted with your QSA
- Linked compensating controls and their effectiveness evidence
- Auditor view shows defined and customized side by side
Never miss an ASV scan window again.
Requirement 11 mandates quarterly external vulnerability scans by an Approved Scanning Vendor and annual internal and external penetration testing. Venvera schedules both, captures results, links findings to the risk register, and tracks remediation against the requirement-specific timelines. Miss a scan window and Venvera raises it as a finding before the QSA does.
- ASV scan calendar with auto-overdue alerts (Req 11.3.2)
- Penetration test results imported with finding-by-finding tracking (Req 11.4)
- Internal vulnerability scans tracked separately (Req 11.3.1)
- Network segmentation testing schedule per Req 11.4.5
- CDE scope re-confirmed per scan cycle
Your SAQ, ROC and AoC generated, not assembled.
Venvera produces the Self-Assessment Questionnaires (A through D, plus P2PE-HW) and the Report on Compliance for Level 1 entities directly from your control state. The Attestation of Compliance is one click. No more dragging the auditor through six different document stores the night before signing.
- SAQ A / A-EP / B / B-IP / C / C-VT / D-Merchant / D-SP / P2PE-HW supported
- Report on Compliance (DOCX) generated for Level 1 entities
- Attestation of Compliance (PDF) one-click export
- Per-requirement evidence references inserted automatically
- Version history with diffs for auditor walkthroughs
Compliance that holds all year, not just at audit.
PCI DSS v4 requires continuous controls: daily log review (Req 10.4.1), monthly internal scans (Req 11.3.1), quarterly ASV scans, semi-annual segmentation tests. Venvera schedules all of them, integrates with your SIEM and asset inventory, and ensures the recurring requirements actually recur. The annual ROC is the easy part when the daily, monthly and quarterly evidence is already there.
- Daily log review tracking (Req 10.4.1)
- Monthly internal vulnerability scan reminders (Req 11.3.1)
- Quarterly ASV scan windows with overdue alerts
- Semi-annual segmentation testing schedule
- Continuous control review with role-based assignment
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