Regional Bank Achieves PCI DSS Certification in 11 Weeks
A leading regional bank in Bangladesh needed PCI DSS certification before a card network deadline. CardIntel reduced scoping by 30%, enabling certification 5 weeks ahead of schedule.
Tight Deadline, Complex Environment
The bank had received a compliance directive from its acquiring partner requiring PCI DSS certification within 16 weeks — significantly tighter than the typical 6-month timeline for a first-time ROC assessment.
The challenge was compounded by the bank's complex cardholder data environment: multiple card processing systems, legacy ATM infrastructure, a growing digital banking platform, and over 200 branch locations handling card transactions.
- 16-week deadline imposed by card network acquiring partner
- No prior PCI DSS assessment — first-time ROC
- Complex CDE spanning card processing, ATMs, digital banking, and 200+ branches
- Bangladesh Bank ICT guidelines required parallel compliance documentation
- Limited internal security team with no PCI DSS experience
CardIntel-Accelerated Assessment
EIC deployed a 4-phase accelerated methodology combining our CardIntel AI-powered discovery platform with an experienced QSA team of 4 assessors. The approach was designed to parallelise work streams and compress the typical 6-month timeline.
CardIntel Discovery
Deployed CardIntel across the bank's network. AI-powered scans identified all cardholder data flows.
Scope Reduction
CardIntel identified 30% of systems as out-of-scope — tokenised or encrypted beyond CDE.
Assessment & Remediation
4-person QSA team assessed all 12 requirements. Remediation ran in parallel.
ROC & Certification
Final validation, ROC compilation, AOC issuance. Delivered 5 weeks ahead of schedule.
Measurable Outcomes
We were told by two other firms that 16 weeks was impossible for a first-time ROC. EIC's team delivered in 11. CardIntel's discovery phase alone saved us 3 weeks of manual scoping work.