Azure PCI DSS compliance

If your organization transmits, processes, or stores credit card data in your Azure cloud environment, you likely need to achieve Azure PCI DSS Compliance. This requires you to demonstrate that you have in place robust security controls to monitor changes in critical infrastructure, detect vulnerabilities, protect cardholder data, and much more.

For small IT security teams or for teams with limited Azure security monitoring experience, this can seem like a daunting task.

However, it doesn’t have to be complex or costly to implement the security controls needed to achieve PCI DSS compliance in your Azure cloud and on-premises environments.

AlienVault® USM Anywhere™ helps you to simplify and accelerate your Azure PCI DSS Compliance by combining multiple essential security capabilities onto a single platform that supports many PCI DSS 3.2 requirements. USM Anywhere provides native security monitoring for Azure cloud environments as well as your physical and virtual on-premises infrastructure and retail outlets, so you can centralize your entire compliance management and security monitoring program onto a single, affordable solution.

AlienVault USM Anywhere allows you to:

• Discover all your Azure environment assets, including OS details, while satisfying Azure scanning policies
• Identify vulnerabilities like unpatched software or insecure configurations
• Centrally collect and analyze log data from cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including Azure cloud
• Correlate security events automatically with AlienVault Labs predefined rules
• Understand the objectives of threats targeting your network
• Speed incident response with built-in remediation guidance for every alert
• Monitor and report on security controls required for HIPAA compliance

USM Anywhere delivers multiple essential security capabilities in one unified solution, so you can reduce the number of security tools you need to purchase to demonstrate Azure PCI DSS Compliance.

By bringing together asset discovery and inventory, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection, behavioral monitoring, SIEM event correlation, and log management onto a single affordable solution, USM Anywhere aligns with the goals of PCI DSS.

Build and Maintain a Secure Network and Systems

USM Anywhere provides security monitoring of your Azure cloud environment as well as your on-premises environment, allowing you to monitor configuration changes to your network firewalls and routers, identify weak or default passwords, and at the same time identify Azure configuration issues that may leave you exposed.

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

USM Anywhere’s built-in asset inventory, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, and log analysis capabilities provide the continuous security visibility you need to detect and respond to intrusions and vulnerabilities quickly.

Implement Strong Access Control Measures

SIEM event correlation and log analysis in USM Anywhere captures all user account activities on critical systems in Azure and in your data center, as well as collection and correlation of valid and invalid authentication attempts, so you always know who is trying to access your cardholder data environment (CDE).

Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Continuous monitoring of user access to your Azure data processing resources and testing for vulnerabilities in your environment are not only requirements for PCI compliance but also critical security monitoring activities. USM Anywhere combines vulnerability assessment, event correlation, and log management to give you the security visibility you need in one central location.

Maintain an Information Security Policy

USM Anywhere supports your information security policy by helping you to detect breaches sooner and to respond faster by enabling automated incident response and giving you all the relevant security data you need at your fingertips along with response guidance and threat intelligence.