Compliance evidence for retail and e-commerce on Azure
PCI-DSS v4.0 controls, evidenced continuously.
The regulatory driver
If you process card payments, PCI-DSS v4.0 applies, and its requirements are explicit about logging, retention, segmentation and access control. Retail also carries full GDPR exposure across customer data at scale.
Annual assessment leaves eleven months of unverified drift. Continuous evaluation closes that gap.
What Equalis OpsReg shows you
- ✓110 PCI-DSS rules evaluated on every scan
- ✓Log retention and monitoring requirements verified against actual Azure configuration
- ✓Network segmentation and public-exposure findings, per resource
- ✓Evidence packaged per subscription for your QSA
What exposure looks like
PCI-DSS is contractual rather than statutory. Card schemes act through acquiring banks, and consequences reach merchants as increased transaction costs, remediation mandates, or withdrawal of card processing. Amounts are not published, which makes them difficult to budget for and easy to underestimate.
GDPR applies to the same customer data, with fines up to 20 million euros or 4 percent of annual worldwide turnover, whichever is higher.
An annual assessment leaves eleven months during which configuration drifts and nobody is watching.
Why generic tooling falls short here
Point in time versus continuous
The annual assessment model was designed before infrastructure changed daily.
Prioritisation versus proof
A ranked risk queue helps your engineers. It does not answer a QSA asking for the state of log retention on a specific date.
Scope discipline
Cardholder environments are defined by boundary. If the tool cannot scope evidence to that boundary, the boundary is not real.