Your Audit-Ready PCI DSS Compliance Checklist for 2026
Analysts summarized by the PCI Security Standards Council found that breaches in scope for PCI frequently involved card data. Teams already know the risk. The hard part is proving, month after month, that the controls around that data stayed in place and kept working. That is why many PCI DSS audits stall in the same places: scattered evidence, undocumented scope changes, firewall rules that drifted after a change window, and logs that exist but were never centralized.