Quarterly PCI DSS ASV scanning, and risk-based vulnerability management on Qualys or Tenable.
We offer two related services. ASV scanning is the formal external scan that PCI DSS requires every quarter. It runs through an approved scanning service, and our PCI team helps you through to a passing report. Prioritised vulnerability management is an ongoing program on Qualys or Tenable. It finds weak spots across IT, cloud, identity, network and operational systems, ranks them by real risk and drives the fixes. Both are run by certified Vectra staff.
A passing ASV scan does not prove full PCI DSS compliance.
ASV scanning checks one specific external scanning requirement. PCI DSS compliance also depends on your wider technical, operational and governance controls, and on the right annual validation process.
PCI DSS needs proof of passing external scans run by a PCI SSC Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV). The scans must cover the required external attack surface. Failed findings must be fixed, and rescans must confirm the pass.
We do more than hand you a scan portal. Our PCI team supports the whole cycle.
External ASV scans are normally needed each quarter. We manage the timing across the reporting period.
An extra external scan may be needed when big changes affect in-scope systems or your external attack surface.
A general vulnerability scan does not replace the formal ASV scanning and reporting that PCI DSS requires.
Vulnerabilities must be fixed and rescans run until the ASV Program Guide pass rules are met. The report comes in the required PCI format.
ASV compliance depends on the right scope, reliable scans, quick fixes and a clean rescan. Launching a scan is only one part.
Find every internet-facing system and e-commerce asset that must be included.
Approve the scan, confirm who owns each asset and make sure protective controls won’t void the result.
Run the approved external scan against the confirmed scope.
Review failures, fix vulnerabilities and record valid disputes or exceptions.
Check the fixes and produce the official passing ASV scan report.
Set up access, contacts, scan targets, approved users and a recurring scan schedule.
Review IP addresses, domains, payment pages, hosted systems and anything else reachable from outside.
Run scans as often as required, and show you the status and results.
Help your technical team understand each vulnerability, how severe it is and the likely fix.
Work with system owners, hosting providers and vendors to fix issues quickly.
Scan again as needed to confirm failures are fixed and the pass rules are met.
Provide the scan evidence your QSA, acquirer, merchant bank or internal compliance team needs.
Align ASV scanning with your wider PCI DSS scope, validation method and yearly compliance program.
The exact requirement depends on your PCI DSS validation path, how your payments are built and which systems can be reached from outside.
Public systems that are part of, connect to, or can affect the security of the cardholder data environment.
Providers whose services store, process or send customer account data, or can affect its security.
Under PCI DSS v4.x, some SAQ A e-commerce merchants also need ASV scans of the systems that host their web pages.
Vectra pairs ASV scanning with one of Australia’s most experienced PCI consulting teams. That helps you move from a failed scan to a practical fix plan and compliance evidence you can defend.
Long experience supporting PCI DSS programs for Australian organisations.
Advice on scope, findings, fixes, rescans and what evidence you need.
QSA assessment, SAQ help, penetration testing and compliance advice when you need them.
We turn scanner output into fixes you can act on, not just a report.
We keep the schedule, target scope, report access and evidence in order all year.
We support simple merchant setups and large estates with many public services.
Find the weaknesses. Fix what matters first.
Vulnerability management is more than running scans. A mature program keeps track of every asset, uses authenticated checks, adds business and threat context, drives the fixes and proves that risk has actually gone down.
Find known, unknown, unmanaged, cloud and externally exposed assets.
Use agents, scanners, connectors and authenticated checks to find weak spots.
Combine severity, how easy it is to exploit, how critical the asset is and live threat context. CVSS scores alone are not enough.
Assign owners, connect to your workflows and coordinate patches or other fixes.
Rescan, measure results and show that risk keeps going down.
Vectra partners with both vendors. We have certified specialists who can design, deploy and run each platform.
A strong fit if you want one cloud platform that combines asset inventory, vulnerability management, risk scoring, configuration, compliance and patching. It suits teams that want wide agent coverage, built-in fixes and detailed compliance reports.
A strong fit if you want broad coverage and a path to one view of exposure across IT, cloud, identity, OT, AI and your external attack surface. It suits teams with a diverse estate, or those moving toward enterprise exposure management.
Check operating systems, apps, appliances and infrastructure with agents and scanners.
Find cloud assets, vulnerabilities, public exposure, weak settings and deployment risk.
Go beyond CVEs to find too much privilege, identity weak spots and access paths an attacker could use.
Find exposed systems, services and unmanaged assets that an outside attacker could discover.
See more of your operational technology, printers, cameras, phones and other devices that can’t run an agent.
Check technical controls against benchmarks and support PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and other assurance needs.
Review your current tools, coverage, scan quality, how fast fixes happen, reporting and governance.
Plan where scanners go, cloud agents, connectors, network access, segmentation and authentication.
Set up the tenant, users, assets, tags, sensors, scan policies, dashboards and integrations.
Scan deeper, cut false results and improve asset coverage and data quality.
Build rules for how critical each asset is, risk models, fix-time targets and focused dashboards.
Send findings to ticketing, asset management, endpoint tools, the SIEM and the people who own each fix.
Confirm findings, spot controls that offset the risk, and coordinate patches, setting changes or other fixes.
Measure exposure, ageing, SLA results, exceptions, who owns what and how much risk has dropped.
Grow into continuous exposure management that covers attack paths, identities, cloud and external risk.
SONAR can run the program on your existing Qualys or Tenable platform, or on one that Vectra supplies and sets up.
Vectra supplies, designs and sets up the platform, then hands it over to your security or infrastructure team.
Vectra runs the platform, keeps coverage up, ranks risk and helps coordinate fixes as an ongoing managed service.
Speak to us about your cyber governance and compliance requirements.
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