For PCI DSS programs

PCI DSS compliance, made boring.

Continuous monitoring for the web-facing parts of your cardholder data environment. Production-safe scans, control-mapped exports, and remediation your engineers can actually ship.

What we monitor

The PCI DSS requirements we cover end-to-end.

Requirement 6

Secure systems and software

Continuous scanning of payment surfaces for known vulnerabilities. You get a ranked list of what to patch, why it matters, and the exact fix for your stack.
Requirement 11

Test security regularly

Automated DAST against your live cardholder data environment on a cadence you set. Findings include evidence and timestamps that drop straight into your QSA's workbook.
Requirement 12

Policy and evidence

Every scan is logged, every finding has a status history, and exports map to control language. No more screenshotting dashboards the week of the audit.
How it works

How Barrion supports PCI DSS compliance.

Continuous monitoring

Production-safe by default

Default scans never submit forms or touch state-changing routes. You can monitor your live cardholder data environment without breaking it.
Payment surface coverage

APIs, web, and checkout flows

Coverage for the surfaces that actually carry cardholder data, including payment APIs, hosted checkout flows, and customer-facing web apps.
Audit-ready exports

PDFs your QSA can use

Timestamped, control-mapped reports with finding history and remediation status. Hand them over without a hand-off meeting.
Real-time alerts

Know when something breaks

Slack, email, and webhook alerts when a new high-severity finding shows up on a payment surface. Triaged before it becomes an incident.
The cadence

Continuous evidence, not audit-week panic.

PCI DSS programs fail at the same place every year: the gap between quarterly scans. Something ships, something drifts, and the next scan finds it three months later. Barrion closes that gap by running production-safe scans on a weekly or daily cadence against your payment surfaces, so you've got fresh evidence the moment your QSA asks for it.

Every finding is mapped to the relevant PCI DSS requirement, kept in a status history, and exportable as a timestamped PDF or CSV. When audit week shows up, you're not screenshotting dashboards. You're handing over a folder.

  • ✓Production-safe DAST against payment APIs, checkout flows, and web apps
  • ✓Findings mapped to PCI DSS Requirements 6, 11, and 12 control language
  • ✓Timestamped exports with finding history and remediation status
  • ✓Slack, email, and webhook alerts when a new high-severity finding lands
  • ✓Retention of every scan so your audit window always has evidence
Evidence example

A QSA-ready mapping, without a translation step.

A typical Barrion PCI DSS evidence export, ready to attach to your audit package:

{
  "checkout_known_vulns": "Req 6.3.1",
  "secure_coding_headers": "Req 6.4.1",
  "external_dast_payment": "Req 11.4.2",
  "rescan_after_change": "Req 11.4.2.1",
  "tls_payment_surface": "Req 4.2.1",
  "scan_evidence_logged": "Req 11.4.4"
}
FAQ

PCI DSS, the practical questions.

Does Barrion cover the entire PCI DSS scope, or just the parts that touch the web?
Barrion covers the externally observable parts of your cardholder data environment: payment APIs, checkout flows, customer-facing web apps, TLS, headers, DNS, and email auth. It's the right tool for Requirements 6 and 11 as they apply to those surfaces, and it produces the evidence Requirement 12 asks for. It does not replace network segmentation testing, internal vulnerability scanning, or the policies and procedures your QSA reviews. Treat it as the continuous-monitoring layer for the web-facing portion of your CDE.
How does this hold up in an actual PCI DSS audit?
Exports include the scan timestamp, scope, finding evidence, remediation status, and a mapping to PCI DSS requirements. QSAs we've worked with accept these as evidence for Requirements 6.3, 11.4, and the relevant 12.x logging controls. If your QSA wants a specific format, the CSV export is easy to transform. We don't claim to replace your QSA; we make the evidence-collection part painless.
How often should scans run for PCI DSS evidence?
Quarterly is the floor for most PCI DSS programs, but the standard expects re-testing after significant changes. Continuous monitoring on Barrion runs weekly on Essential and daily on Business, so you have evidence that you re-tested after every meaningful deploy, not just once a quarter. Every scan is timestamped and retained, so your audit window always has fresh evidence.
Is it actually safe to run this against our live payment environment?
Yes. Default scans are read-only at the application layer. They don't submit forms, don't hit state-changing endpoints, and don't attempt to enumerate cardholder data. You can opt into deeper authenticated scanning per target, but the safe-by-default behavior is what most PCI DSS programs run continuously against production.
Recommended tools for PCI DSS

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Compliance

Compliance checker

Run a PCI DSS-aware scan against your payment surfaces and see which requirements pass cleanly.
Transport

TLS test

Verify the transport security on every payment endpoint against the cipher baselines QSAs expect.
Headers

Security headers test

Check the header posture on checkout flows and payment APIs against Requirement 6 expectations.

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