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PCI DSS · E-commerce

PCI DSS for E-commerce

Your customer, investor, or auditor just made PCI DSS a requirement. Here is what it takes, what drives the timeline, and how a Toronto team gets you there.

Any e-commerce business that handles card payments falls under PCI DSS. We scope your cardholder data environment, pick the right SAQ, and close the gaps.

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Why E-commerce companies need PCI DSS

  • PCI DSS is the card-industry security standard (current version 4.0); it applies to any business that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data.
  • How you accept payments (hosted checkout versus direct card handling) determines which Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) applies and how large your scope is.
  • Reducing PCI scope, for example via a hosted or tokenized checkout, is often the cheapest path to compliance.
  • Non-compliance can mean fines from acquirers and card brands, and liability if a breach occurs.

More context on this sector on our E-commerce industry page, and on the framework itself on our PCI DSS hub.

What our PCI DSS engagement covers

Tailored to E-commerce, delivered by a Toronto security and compliance team led by a published security researcher, with our offensive-security partner where offensive testing is involved.

  • Cardholder data environment (CDE) scoping and SAQ selection
  • Scope-reduction strategy using tokenization or hosted checkout
  • PCI DSS v4.0.1 scoping and cardholder data environment (CDE) definition
  • Gap assessment against the 12 requirements and the applicable SAQ selection
  • Network segmentation, encryption, and access-control implementation
  • Evidence collection and QSA / ASV coordination where required

See the full PCI DSS service page, or productized pricing for fixed-scope engagements.

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PCI DSS for E-commerce: common questions

Which PCI SAQ applies to our store?

It depends on how you handle cards: a fully hosted checkout (SAQ A) has far less scope than directly handling card data. We determine the right SAQ and minimize your scope.

Do we need a QSA?

Most small and mid-size e-commerce merchants can self-assess with the appropriate SAQ; larger merchants may need a Qualified Security Assessor. We tell you which tier you are in.

What changed in PCI DSS v4.0.1?

Version 4.0.1 adds more prescriptive requirements around authentication, scripts on payment pages, and ongoing risk management. We scope against the current standard.

PCI DSS for E-commerce, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, and when we could start.

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The same work, without the line item

Every 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.

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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 A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.

Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

Published vulnerability research

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.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

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 with zero exceptions.

The platform stayed in production 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.

Recent engagements

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.