PCI-DSS compliance is often treated as a project: assess, remediate, audit, pass. The audit passes and compliance work stops until next year.
This misunderstands what PCI-DSS requires: not a point-in-time state, but a continuous operational discipline.
The most neglected continuous requirements: patch management (critical patches within 30 days), network monitoring (IDS/IPS alerts nobody is reviewing), log review (12 months retained but never queried), and access control reviews (accounts of employees who left still active).
Build compliance into your operational rhythms, not your audit calendar.
— Dick Bassey | DevDick | 2022