Assess your FinTech AWS infrastructure audit readiness for PCI DSS v4.0.1 and SOC 2 Type II. 28 diagnostic questions across 5 dimensions, built from 18 years of real FinTech infrastructure experience.
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These are real words from real FinTech engineering leaders.
“We had no formal risk assessment or vendor management program. Access reviews were done ad-hoc in spreadsheets. Our incident response plan existed only in the founder's head.”
FinTech startup founder, pre-SOC 2 assessment
“We bought a compliance platform, connected it to our AWS — and it immediately revealed 200+ gaps in our dashboard.”
12-person FinTech startup on discovering their real state
“Startups buy a readiness platform and then spend countless engineering and founder cycles turning checkmarks green without knowing why they need each control.”
Hacker News community discussion on SOC 2
“Only 32% of organizations meet all PCI DSS requirements — and non-compliance fines range from $5,000 to $100,000 per month.”
Industry compliance research, 2025
Get a taste of the diagnostic. These 5 questions cover one from each dimension. The full scorecard has 28.
Dimension 1: Reliability & Uptime
Do you have documented SLOs (not just SLAs) for your payment processing, API endpoints, and core transaction flows — and does your engineering team know what they are?
Dimension 2: Security & PCI Compliance
Is your Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) explicitly scoped and documented? Can you show an auditor exactly which AWS accounts, VPCs, and services are in scope?
Dimension 3: CI/CD Maturity
How frequently does your team deploy to production, and can any engineer trigger a deployment through an automated pipeline?
Dimension 4: AWS Architecture & Cost
Are your AWS accounts structured with a multi-account strategy using Organizations with SCPs?
Dimension 5: Incident Response Readiness
Do you have documented runbooks for your top 5 failure scenarios (payment failure, DB outage, security breach, third-party failure, deployment failure)?
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The complete diagnostic workbook as a printable PDF. Score your infrastructure manually and build your remediation roadmap.
Everything in the PDF, plus a live web tool that calculates scores, tracks progress over time, and generates audit-ready reports.
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Complete it with your team in 90 minutes. Walk away with a prioritized action plan.
Not "do you have monitoring?" but "what is your actual MTTR for payment processing failures?" Questions that reveal whether you'd survive a real audit or incident.
Every question maps to specific PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements and SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria.
Designed to be shared with your CTO, board, or engineering team. Your critical gaps, prioritized, in one page.
Sequenced by priority: audit blockers first, then operational risks, then optimization.
If you're overwhelmed, do these. The single highest-leverage fix from 18 years of experience.
SLOs, MTTR, dependency mapping, SPOFs, on-call structure, load testing
CDE scoping, network segmentation, access management, encryption, logging, third-party risk
Deployment frequency, test coverage, rollback capability, secret management, security gates
Account structure, tagging, reserved instances, IaC coverage, resource lifecycle
Runbooks, communication templates, post-mortems, DR testing, blast radius analysis, tabletops
18+ years of FinTech infrastructure, security, and SRE leadership. I've personally led PCI DSS v4.0.1 compliance on AWS, built SRE functions from scratch, and managed post-acquisition infrastructure migrations with zero downtime.
“I built this scorecard because I kept seeing the same gaps cause the same damage — failed audits, extended outages, lost deals.”
Pay a $50 refundable deposit to lock in your spot. Applied to the $199 price at launch.
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$50 applied to the $199 price at launch. Full refund if we don't ship the tool.
The complete 25-page diagnostic scorecard with all 28 questions, dual-framework compliance mapping (PCI DSS v4.0.1 + SOC 2 Type II), scoring criteria, remediation roadmap template, and "The One Thing" per dimension. Instant download after purchase.
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60-90 minutes with your team. Best done with your lead engineer and whoever manages your AWS accounts.
No. Generic checklists ask "do you have monitoring?" This scorecard asks "what is your actual MTTR for payment processing failures?" Every question was built from 18 years of FinTech experience.
Yes. Every question references specific AWS services (VPCs, SCPs, KMS, CloudTrail, Security Groups), and the remediation guidance is AWS-native.