Understand the environment
PCI DSS provides technical and operational requirements for protecting payment account data.
- Payment channels and connected systems
- Providers and data flows
- Systems that may affect payment security
COMPLIANCE & FRAMEWORKS
Make payment security responsibilities clearer.
Understand your payment environment, review relevant safeguards, and prepare supporting records. HOZHO helps make PCI DSS readiness work more manageable for your team.
For small businesses, nonprofits, and tribal and local governments.
PCI-DSS
Practical preparation for payment security.
Explore the areas we can address together. Your engagement is shaped around your priorities, current capabilities, and available resources.
Clarify who does what
Work with your payment providers and internal team to understand shared responsibilities.
- Provider responsibilities and documentation
- Merchant obligations to confirm
- Ownership of security activities
Address relevant gaps
Review agreed practices and prepare an action plan around your validation needs.
- Access and account practices
- Policies, training, and incident readiness
- Coordination of technical improvements
Prepare for the required review
Organize supporting records and unresolved questions for the appropriate validation process.
- Requested policies and records
- Evidence owners and remaining gaps
- Questions for your acquirer or assessor
How we work together
Start with a shared understanding, agree the scope, and turn the work into practical action.
Clarify the validation path
Confirm requirements with the organization managing your compliance program.
Review scoped practices
Identify relevant gaps and assign improvement work with your team and providers.
Organize supporting records
Prepare evidence for the applicable self-assessment or independent review.
Questions you may have
If we outsource payments, do responsibilities disappear?
Not necessarily. Confirm your obligations and validation requirements with your acquirer or other compliance-accepting entity.
Will HOZHO certify PCI DSS compliance?
This service supports readiness. Required assessments, scans, attestations, and independent validation must follow the applicable payment-program requirements.
Which self-assessment questionnaire do we use?
Eligibility depends on your actual payment environment. Confirm the appropriate validation path rather than choosing a questionnaire based only on business size.
Explore related support
Let’s identify your next priority.
Tell us about your organization, what is changing, and where you need support. We will help you define a practical starting point.
Services, deliverables, technology, vCISO involvement, and response commitments are defined in your proposal and agreement. Additional projects and specialized services may require separate scope.