Payment Card Assessments specializes in PCI Compliance

After working together for a combined 20+ years at a Fortune 100 company and level 1 merchant, we made the decision to start our own consulting firm so that we could share our wealth of knowledge and experience across the merchant and service provider landscape in a way that helps them Automate | Educate | and Operate. Together, we created a PCI Compliance Sustainability Program framework that brings together the regulatory requirements of the PCI DSS and security best practices. More importantly, we made it repeatable and practical through automation. No one teaches the HOW of PCI DSS Compliance like we do.

Peggy Nolan

CEO & Co-founder

✔️ Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) ✔️ (Former)Payment Card Industry Internal Security Assessor (PCI ISA) ✔️ Payment Card Industry Professiona l (PCI-P) ✔️ Certified Project Manager ✔️ International Speaker ✔️ Masters in Computer Information Management ✔️ Masters in History ✔️ Yoga Teacher ✔️ Grandma of 8 (Best job in the world!)

Lisa Cressey

CTO & Co-founder

✔️ Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) ✔️ Certified Program Manager ✔️ Certified Technical Writer ✔️ Human Factors Specialist - User and Task Analysis ✔️ Certified Online Help Developer ✔️ Certified Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer ✔️ Associates in Computer Science ✔️ Associates in Accounting ✔️ Ride for Multiple Sclerosis - 100 Miler

What We Do

We have in the trenches experience running a PCI Compliance Sustainability and Assessment program for a Fortune 100 company a level 1 merchant. Payment Card Assessments is here to help you achieve continuous PCI DSS Compliance without impacting the integrity of your security controls or your Report on Compliance. In 2020, only 27% of organizations were compliant 6 months after their Report on Compliance. By 2022, the numbers slightly improved to 48%. Source: Verizon Payment Security Report

Our Approach

At Payment Card Assessments we approach Continuous PCI Compliance with these 3 critical pillars of excellence