Adrian Cole

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Security · Retail · 4 months

PCI-Ready Security Overhaul

A retailer six months from a failed PCI reassessment. We scoped the cardholder environment down to three accounts, encrypted everything with customer-managed keys, automated evidence collection, and passed with zero compensating controls.

Padlock over a circuit board representing the PCI security overhaul
PCI-Ready Security OverhaulSecurity · Retail · 4 monthsZero audit findings
  1. Shrink the blast radius

    The cardholder environment dropped from sprawl to three tightly-scoped accounts. What the auditor can't reach, you don't have to explain.

  2. Encrypt everything, own the keys

    Customer-managed keys, enforced by policy-as-code. No unencrypted volume or bucket can survive a pull request.

  3. Automate the evidence

    Continuous Config rules and GuardDuty findings feed the evidence pack directly — the audit became a reading exercise, not an excavation.

Scope is a security control. The cheapest compliance finding is the system that was never in scope.
0audit findings
3in-scope accounts
100%evidence automated
  • AWS Control Tower
  • KMS
  • GuardDuty
  • OPA

Audit date circled in red?

Bring me the scope letter — we'll shrink it before the assessor arrives.

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