PAYMENTS / PCI DSS
Protect Cardholder Data Wherever It Flows
PCI DSS expects cardholder data to be encrypted, access-restricted, and fully audited — but CHD leaks into logs, analytics, and support systems. Lattix binds protection to the data so it holds across your whole environment, and shrinks your audit scope.
Cardholder data has a way of escaping the cardholder data environment. It ends up in application logs, analytics pipelines, support tickets, and partner integrations — each one expanding PCI DSS scope and breach exposure. Traditional controls protect the perimeter of the CDE, but once CHD moves, those controls stop applying. Every system that touches card data becomes an assessment burden, and proving the required access controls and monitoring across all of them is expensive and error-prone.
- Cardholder data sprawls into logs, analytics, and support systems, expanding scope.
- Perimeter controls around the CDE don't follow CHD once it moves.
- Demonstrating least-privilege access to CHD across systems is hard to prove.
- Monitoring and audit evidence for PCI is scattered and manual.
- Each system touching card data adds assessment cost and breach risk.
Encrypt and Bind Cardholder Data
Lattix wraps cardholder data in Zero Trust Data Format so it stays encrypted and policy-bound wherever it travels — in the CDE, in analytics, in support systems. CHD that escapes its intended boundary remains protected instead of becoming exposed plaintext.
Enforce Least Privilege on Every Access
Attribute-based access control restricts CHD to authorized roles and contexts, evaluated on every request. This directly supports PCI DSS Requirements 7 and 8 — restricting access by business need-to-know and authenticating every access — and holds even outside the core CDE.
Shrink Assessment Scope
Because protection travels with the data, systems that only ever handle policy-bound, encrypted CHD can be descoped or reduced in assessment burden — lowering both audit cost and the attack surface that worries QSAs.
Produce Audit-Ready Evidence
Every access is recorded to a tamper-evident ledger, supplying the access monitoring and logging evidence PCI DSS Requirement 10 expects — verifiable, consolidated, and always available for your assessor.
Protect CHD Everywhere
Cardholder data stays encrypted and policy-bound across the CDE and beyond.
Reduce Scope
Descope or simplify systems that only handle encrypted, policy-bound CHD.
Least-Privilege Access
Enforce need-to-know access to card data on every request (Req. 7 & 8).
Audit-Ready Logging
A tamper-evident ledger supplies verifiable access evidence for Req. 10.
Contain Breaches
Encrypted, revocable CHD limits exposure if a system is compromised.
Lower Audit Cost
Consolidated, continuous evidence cuts the effort of each PCI assessment.
Helps You Align With
Lattix provides the technical controls and audit capabilities to help your organization meet the requirements of these frameworks.
Explore Further
How does Lattix help with PCI DSS compliance?
Lattix keeps cardholder data encrypted and policy-bound wherever it flows, enforces least-privilege access on every request (supporting Requirements 7 and 8), and records every access to a tamper-evident ledger for the monitoring evidence Requirement 10 expects.
Can Lattix reduce our PCI DSS assessment scope?
Because protection travels with the data, systems that only ever handle encrypted, policy-bound cardholder data can often be descoped or have reduced assessment burden, lowering both audit cost and attack surface.
What happens to cardholder data that leaks into logs or analytics?
Data wrapped in Zero Trust Data Format stays encrypted and policy-bound even when it reaches logs, analytics, or support systems, so escaped CHD remains protected rather than becoming exposed plaintext.
Does Lattix provide evidence for PCI auditors?
Yes. Every access to cardholder data is recorded to a tamper-evident ledger, providing consolidated, verifiable access and monitoring evidence that QSAs can rely on.
Lock Down Cardholder Data
Tell us how card data flows through your environment, and we'll show you how Lattix protects it end to end and shrinks your PCI scope.
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