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Read the blog →Every transaction touches card data, which means PCI DSS. traztech keeps your scope tight, your checkout secure, and your platform off the front page.
Ecommerce lives at the intersection of payment compliance, web application risk, and uptime pressure. Attackers go where the money is.
If you accept cards, PCI DSS applies. Your SAQ level depends on how cardholder data flows through your systems.
Checkout flows, customer accounts, and third-party scripts are constant targets for injection, skimming, and account takeover.
Magecart-style attacks compromise checkout through third-party JavaScript. PCI DSS now addresses this directly.
A breach or outage during peak season is a revenue event, not just a security event.
We reduce your PCI scope, harden the storefront, and put a responder on contract for when it matters.
Scope reduction, segmentation, and SAQ guidance so compliance is manageable.
Security & ComplianceWeb application and checkout testing, including the third-party scripts that skimming attacks abuse.
Penetration testingNamed responders and a contracted SLA for breach, skimming, or outage events.
IR RetainerSecrets management, least privilege, and the resilience to survive peak load.
Cloud Securitytraztech is run by a published security researcher with five published CVEs, including CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1), the kill-switch for the Mirai botnet, the same botnet behind record-breaking DDoS attacks on online retailers. We reduce your PCI scope, harden the checkout, and put named responders on contract. Your storefront gets a program built by people who break things for a living.
See the full research and CVE record, or read how we work with our partners. Once you are engaged, our auditor management & advocacy and vulnerability management services keep the program moving, tracked through your existing traztech Workspace.
It still applies, but using a compliant processor and keeping card data off your servers can dramatically reduce your scope and put you on a simpler self-assessment questionnaire.
It is when an attacker injects malicious JavaScript into your checkout, often through a compromised third-party script, to steal card data as customers type it. PCI DSS now requires controls for this.
Use a hosted or tokenized payment flow, segment your network, and ensure card data never touches systems it does not need to. We design the architecture and the SAQ approach together.
PCI DSS requires regular penetration testing for most merchants, and your checkout and account flows are high-value targets regardless. We co-deliver testing with our offensive-security partner.
An incident response retainer gives you named responders and a contracted SLA, so a breach or outage during your busiest week has a team on it immediately.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you what applies to you, what it would cost, and when we could start.
Book a callEvery readiness programme needs a control library, an evidence register, policies and a score for the board. Being quoted five figures a year for that is normal. Paying it is not.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.
Track record
We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.
The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.
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