Evidence ready before anyone asks.
PCI compliance operations that keep evidence ready all year.
CinderRook turns PCI DSS from an annual fire drill into an accountable operating rhythm for merchants and payment service providers.
Built on 13+ years of PCI DSS and cybersecurity experience
Control room / 2025
Owners, due dates, and evidence are visible before the assessment window opens.
The gap we close
Compliance is a practice, not a packet.
Complex environments rarely fail because a policy is impossible to write. They struggle with unclear scope, scattered ownership, changing vendors, and evidence that lives in someone's memory.
CinderRook makes the work legible. We connect the control to the owner, the owner to the workflow, and the workflow to evidence that stays useful between assessments.
The CinderRook method
Make the next right action obvious.
A practical layer between your obligations and the teams who have to carry them out.
Clarify the boundary
Map payment flows, systems, locations, vendors, and responsibility lines so scope stops being a yearly debate.
Build the operating cadence
Turn controls into a calendar of owners, checks, exceptions, and evidence—not a folder assembled at the deadline.
Keep readiness visible
Give leaders a practical view of gaps and remediation while the work is still small enough to change.
Where we help
Built for the messy middle.
For teams that have outgrown generic templates, but do not need a heavyweight GRC program or a formal QSA assessment from us.
Readiness assessment
A grounded view of what is true, what is missing, and what matters next.
Remediation roadmap
Sequenced actions your teams can own, budget, and close without theater.
Workflow enablement
Evidence work embedded into Jira, ServiceNow, ClickUp, or Microsoft 365.
Monthly operations
A steady partner for control reviews, staff guidance, and assessment readiness.
Stop preparing for the assessment. Start operating for it.
Tell us where PCI work is getting stuck. We'll help you find the first useful move.
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