Fintech Startup Achieves PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance and Passes First Audit
Payment Processing Fintech | 85 employees, processing $40M annually | Toronto, Canada
The Challenge
A high-growth fintech processing payment card data needed PCI DSS 4.0 compliance before their Series B fundraising round. Their infrastructure was cloud-native but had grown organically without security governance. The SAQ-D self-assessment revealed 31 non-compliant areas.
Key Pain Point
A high-growth fintech processing payment card data needed PCI DSS 4.
Our Solution
GuardsArm designed a cloud-native compliance architecture: AWS infrastructure hardening with CIS benchmarks, tokenization architecture to reduce PCI scope, automated vulnerability scanning integrated into CI/CD, comprehensive logging and monitoring with Splunk, and documented security policies aligned with PCI DSS 4.0 requirements.
Measurable Results
"Our investors specifically asked about PCI compliance during due diligence. Having the certification in hand gave them confidence in our security posture and accelerated the round."
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