PCI DSS certification in Delhi requires 3 to 6 months of structured work. It applies to every organisation that stores, transmits or processes cardholder data. We map the cardholder data environment, then reduce it through segmentation. A gap assessment sets the remediation plan, and we validate every control.
The 100% first-attempt pass rate still holds. A written fixed-fee quote arrives within 48 hours. We travel to your Delhi locations.
The capital region runs a large share of India's digital payments. Two of India's biggest wallet and payments firms sit in Noida and Gurugram. When RBI stopped a large NCR payments bank from taking new deposits in January 2024, it cited persistent non-compliance. That was a supervisory action, not a PCI finding. Still, it showed NCR's payments firms how closely RBI now reads their controls. PCI DSS certification is what keeps an aggregator onboarding you, whatever the local regulator decides next.
The rules keep growing. RBI's Master Direction on Payment Aggregators, issued in September 2025, requires every aggregator to comply with PCI DSS. It must also check each merchant's PCI status at onboarding and make sure merchants do not store card data. Many of those aggregators and their merchants sit in Delhi NCR.
Fraud pressure is real too. Reports put Delhi residents' 2025 cyber-fraud losses at somewhere between ₹1,000 crore and ₹2,100 crore, depending on the outlet. That covers all cyber fraud, from investment scams to fake bosses asking finance staff to pay. It is not a card-breach figure, but it shows why staff training and tight access matter. Our PCI DSS consultants in Delhi work with teams around Connaught Place, Nehru Place, Okhla and across NCR.
Each stage has a fixed fee and a clear hand-off. Nothing moves on until you have seen and approved the output.
In 90 minutes we agree if you act as a merchant, a service provider or both. Many NCR fintechs are both. We then draw a first sketch of your card flows.
We follow each card number from checkout, IVR or API call to storage and back. Every system that holds, sends or can affect it goes into scope.
We assess your environment against each control. The result is a ranked remediation plan, with owners and dates, that your leadership can track.
We remediate each identified gap: isolate the cardholder data environment, harden servers, add MFA, centralise logging and lock down payment-page scripts.
Quarterly ASV scans, internal scans, segmentation tests and the yearly pen test. We retest each fix so the evidence is clean.
We finish your SAQ or guide the QSA audit to a RoC, deliver the AoC and keep your scope, scans and training current.
PCI DSS sets out 12 requirements. This is how each one lands in a Delhi business that handles card data, such as an aggregator, a retailer or a contact centre.
Rules that keep the payment network apart from the agent floor, the guest network and the corporate LAN.
Every POS, server and cloud instance starts from a hardened template. Vendor default logins are removed.
Store the least card data you can. RBI's tokenisation rules already bar most merchants from keeping the card number.
Card data moving between your app, your aggregator and the bank is always sent over strong encryption.
Anti-malware on every exposed system. A 2022 ransomware attack on a major Delhi public hospital reportedly began with a phishing email.
Secure code, quick patches and a list of every script on your checkout page, with checks that each one is approved.
A collections agent, a developer, and a finance manager each get only the access their role needs.
Unique IDs for every user and MFA for all access to the CDE, including admins working from home.
Badge control for server rooms and agent floors, visitor logs and safe disposal of paper and media.
Central logs kept 12 months, 3 of them instantly searchable. CERT-In adds a 180-day rule for logs kept in India.
External ASV scans each quarter, internal scans, pen tests and proof that your segmentation holds.
Policies, a yearly scope review, vendor oversight, an incident plan and phishing training for finance and payments staff.
A Report on Compliance is not always needed. Smaller merchants validate with a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). Your card flow decides which one, and we confirm it with your acquirer early.
Card brands set these levels based on your yearly transaction count. Service providers use a separate two-level scheme, with Level 1 above 300,000 card transactions a year.
Your site sends buyers to a fully hosted, PCI-validated payment page. You never touch card data electronically.
A payment partner handles the card, but your own web page can still affect how it is captured. Common for D2C brands.
Only imprint machines or standalone dial-out terminals, and no electronic card storage.
Standalone, PTS-approved terminals linked to the processor over IP, as used by many showrooms.
A payment application connected to the internet, with no electronic card data kept on your side.
Staff key in one card at a time on a web-based virtual terminal, for example for phone orders.
Only hardware terminals that belong to a listed point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution.
All other merchants and every service provider, such as an NCR aggregator or processor. It covers the full standard.
| Level | Yearly volume or trigger | How you validate |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Over 6 million card transactions, or any merchant that has had a breach | Yearly on-site QSA assessment and Report on Compliance |
| Level 2 | 1 to 6 million card transactions | Yearly SAQ and ASV scans; some acquirers want a RoC |
| Level 3 | 20,000 to 1 million e-commerce transactions | Yearly SAQ and quarterly ASV scans |
| Level 4 | Under 20,000 e-commerce transactions (or under 1 million overall) | Yearly SAQ and quarterly ASV scans, per acquirer |
ISpectra confirms your level and the right SAQ / RoC during the free kickoff workshop.
Row by row: the exposure of running card work in Delhi without validation, and what a completed programme delivers.
Delhi is a services economy: services make up about 86% of its output. Card data shows up in far more places than a bank. We scope around the card data you truly handle.
PA-O and PA-CB firms meeting RBI's PCI DSS, audit and merchant-check duties.
Checkout pages, hosted fields and third-party scripts under control.
Card top-ups, saved cards via tokens and API links to banks.
Subscription billing for customers in India and abroad.
Service providers that need SAQ D or a full RoC every year.
Phone payments descoped with DTMF masking, pause-and-resume recording or pay-by-link.
High-volume online booking engines and the payment-page script rules.
Front-desk terminals, booking engines and event payments.
POS estates across many stores, often at merchant Level 1 or 2.
Online and in-store card sales for hardware and software traders.
Card and virtual-terminal payments from overseas buyers.
EMI, premium and renewal payments taken by card or mandate.
Billing desks, patient portals and home-collection payments.
Fee payments and course sales from students across India.
App payments, saved tokens and split settlements to partners.
Citizen payment portals built for central bodies and PSUs.
Send us a short note on how you take payments. We will reply with a free scoping view and an SAQ or RoC recommendation.
Most Delhi businesses reach a defensible PCI DSS v4.0.1 position in 3 to 6 months. We commit to the dates in writing. Below is the full 26-week plan. A small scope compresses it to about 12 weeks.
Workshop, card flow maps and your merchant or provider level confirmed.
Review against all 12 requirements and a ranked plan to fix what is missing.
Segmentation, hardening, policies, ASV scans and the internal pen test.
SAQ or RoC complete, QSA sign-off where needed, and your AoC delivered.
We build and run the controls with your team, not just write policies. Then we stay on for the yearly cycle. Every client we have prepared has passed on the first attempt: a 100% first-attempt pass rate.
Workshops and walkthroughs at your office in Delhi, Noida or Gurugram whenever the work needs it.
Senior Qualified Security Assessors plan and oversee every programme.
PCI DSS mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and DPDP, with shared controls.
Segmentation and tokens reduce the systems you have to audit every year.
A written quote in 48 hours and a 3 to 6 month programme, backed by 200+ B2B engagements.
Delhi firms selling to government, enterprise or global buyers rarely stop at PCI DSS. Most controls overlap, so we build once and reuse.
For fintech and SaaS firms with US customers.
Often asked for by PSUs and large enterprises. Shares much of its control set with PCI DSS.
For health-IT teams handling US patient data and payments.
For travel, retail and SaaS firms serving people in the EU.
India's data law. Its Data Protection Board provisions took effect on 13 November 2025.
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