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Retail and e-commerce

Retail and e-commerce compliance, built around the payment page

Retailers and online merchants carry cardholder data, customer accounts and seasonal traffic spikes. CMDash tracks PCI DSS and the privacy and assurance frameworks around it from one set of evidence.

What you answer to

Regulatory and customer pressure

PCI DSS

Anyone who stores, processes or transmits cardholder data answers to PCI DSS, including its requirements for scripts that run on payment pages.

Customer privacy law

GDPR and a growing set of state privacy laws govern how you collect and use customer data.

Partner and platform reviews

Marketplaces, payment providers and enterprise partners ask for security attestations.

What you defend against

Threats that target this industry

Payment-page skimming

Malicious scripts injected on checkout pages capture card data as customers type.

Account takeover

Credential stuffing against customer accounts spikes around sales events.

Third-party scripts and plugins

Each analytics tag, plugin and integration is code you did not write running on your storefront.

Frameworks

The frameworks CMDash tracks for you

Crosswalked, so one piece of evidence counts twice:

  • PCI DSS v4.0.1 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022
  • SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022
What CMDash does for you

Capabilities that matter most here

Framework tracking and crosswalk

Work once against PCI DSS and carry status to the ISO 27001 controls that overlap.

Controls tracked with owners, status and evidence. A status change carries to overlapping controls in other frameworks.

Evidence from your tools

Evidence from the tools you run, collected on a schedule.

Integration data collected on a schedule and turned into evidence by mapping rules you install or write, plus manual uploads with history.

External exposure monitoring

Daily e-mail and DNS authentication checks that protect your brand from spoofing.

Daily DNS and e-mail authentication checks on the domains you have proven you own, and IP blocklist tracking (Essentials and up).

Vendor register

A vendor register for the platforms, plugins and processors you depend on.

Vendors with risk scoring, owners and continuous monitoring, plus SIG Lite and CSA CAIQ questionnaire templates (Enterprise).

Risk register and FAIR

A risk register that ranks what to fix before the next peak.

Likelihood, impact, owner and remediation per risk, with an annualized loss figure in dollars (Starter and up).

Trust Center and questionnaires

Answer partner and marketplace questionnaires from one reviewed set of answers.

A public page for your organization where prospects submit security questionnaires. Nothing reaches the requester until someone on your team approves every answer.

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Cybersecurity compliance software for retail and e-commerce - CMDash