A reality check on why running your environment through Vanta, Drata, Secureframe,Delve, or a SaaS app doesn’t make you PCI-DSS compliant, and why enterprises should be asking harder questions about their vendors.
PCI-DSS 11.5.2 - Guidance and Full Technical Deep Dive # (On-Prem, Hybrid, and Native) # I remember sitting in my first PCI assessment years ago, watching a QSA flip through pages of documentation. When we got to Requirement 11.5.2, file integrity monitoring, the conversation hit a wall. The requirement seemed straightforward on paper, but translating it into a hybrid environment with on-prem servers, AWS workloads, and network appliances? That’s where the real work begins.