For PCI DSS programs

PCI DSS compliance, made boring.

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

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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

The AI pentest covers the 11.4 penetration test and its retests. Passive monitoring adds timestamped checks of the web-facing CDE between tests.

Requirement 12

Policy and evidence

Every scan is logged, every finding has a status history, and exports record severity and fixes you can cite against each requirement. No more screenshotting dashboards the week of the audit.

Pentest evidence

Testing evidence for PCI DSS.

Requirement 11.4 asks for internal and external penetration testing at least every 12 months and after significant changes, and 11.4.4 asks you to retest what you fixed. Barrion covers the web app and API part: its AI pentest and free retests produce evidence that supports both. Your QSA decides whether it fits your environment. Monitoring covers the web tier between tests.

Report

Mapped to OWASP WSTG

Each AI pentest report comes as PDF, XLSX and JSON with an OWASP WSTG coverage matrix. Your auditor sees what was tested, not only what was found.

Review

A security engineer reviews

From Standard up a security engineer reviews the findings. Deeper tests come with a report signed off by that engineer.

Retest

Free retests show the fix

Retesting the issues a pentest found costs nothing. The evidence then shows the finding and the fix, which is the part auditors ask about next.

Continuous

Testing that keeps running

The pentest reruns on a schedule or on demand. Each run labels earlier findings as new, still open, resolved or regressed.

Findings are checked against your live app before they're reported. Confirmed ones come with the request and response, and unconfirmed ones are kept as lower-confidence leads. The monitoring below is the second layer: it keeps a timestamped record between tests.

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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 reports with finding history and remediation status. Hand them over without a hand-off meeting.

Alerts

Know when something breaks

Slack, Teams and email 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 has a severity you can cite against PCI DSS, is 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 passive scans of payment APIs, checkout flows, and web apps
✓Evidence for PCI DSS Requirements 6, 11, and 12
✓Timestamped exports with finding history and remediation status
✓Slack, Teams and email 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.

How Barrion's checks line up with PCI DSS controls. Exports don't carry control tags (pentest reports list CWE, OWASP WSTG and CVSS per finding), so use this as a guide when you cite the evidence:

{
  "checkout_known_vulns": "Req 6.3.1",
  "secure_coding_headers": "Req 6.4.1",
  "payment_page_scripts": "Req 6.4.3",
  "tls_payment_surface": "Req 4.2.1",
  "ai_pentest_external": "Req 11.4.3",
  "ai_pentest_retest": "Req 11.4.4"
}

FAQ

PCI DSS, the practical questions.

Does Barrion help with the PCI DSS 11.4 penetration test?

Yes, as evidence that supports it. Requirement 11.4 asks for internal and external penetration testing at least every 12 months and after significant changes, and 11.4.4 asks for a retest of what was fixed. Barrion covers the web app and API part. Its AI pentest produces a WSTG-mapped report, reviewed by a security engineer from Standard up, and retests of found issues are free. It can rerun on a schedule or on demand. Your QSA decides whether it covers the requirement for your CDE, so share a sample report early. Monitoring is not a penetration test and isn't an ASV scan.

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 severity for each finding. Monitoring exports are built as evidence that supports Requirements 4.2 and 6.3. For 11.4, the evidence is the AI pentest report and its retests. Whether they're accepted is your QSA's decision. 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?

External vulnerability scans are quarterly and must come from an Approved Scanning Vendor, and the penetration test is yearly and after significant changes. Barrion's passive monitoring runs weekly on Essential and daily on Business in between, so drift doesn't wait three months to show up. It isn't an ASV scan. 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. If you need testing behind login, run an AI pentest with credentials. The safe-by-default passive scan is what most PCI DSS programs run continuously against production.

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