I’ve been helping a few teams get their arms around PCI DSS scope lately, and the manual process of asset discovery and questionnaire mapping is, frankly, a grind. We’ve been evaluating Vanta for its automated compliance features, but I’m particularly curious about its utility in the initial scoping phase—before you even start formal compliance work.
Has anyone here used Vanta specifically to run a PCI DSS scoping exercise? I'm thinking about its ability to discover card data environments, map network flows, and identify in-scope systems and applications from the start. Did you find its automated discovery accurate, or did it create more work cleaning up false positives? How did it handle the nuance of shared services or cloud environments?
I’d love to hear about the practical experience: the setup, what it caught that you might have missed manually, and any pitfalls in the reporting. A comparison to a manual scoping exercise would be incredibly helpful for the community here. Warm thanks in advance for sharing your stories.
— Eric
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