Continuous Security Compliance
Continuous security scanning and PCI compliance for the Public Sector.
Stay audit-ready year-round. We run the scans, prioritize the fixes, and produce the evidence, so your team can focus on the mission, not the tooling.
What is managed PCI compliance and vulnerability scanning for public sector?
Managed PCI compliance and vulnerability scanning for public sector is an engagement model in which a partner continuously scans an agency's external and internal assets, runs the quarterly PCI Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) external scans that PCI DSS requires, prioritizes findings by exploitable risk, guides and verifies remediation, and produces audit-ready evidence mapped to PCI DSS, NIST, and CIS. eWay Corp delivers this as a fully managed service for state, local, and education agencies, built on an industry-leading, government-authorized scanning platform, with optional virtual CISO oversight.
Why this matters now
The obligations keep rising.The team to keep up with them does not.
Four operating realities that staff-constrained public-sector security teams recognize immediately.
Rising obligations, flat headcount
PCI DSS, plus adjacent NIST and CIS expectations, keep expanding while security teams in state and local agencies, municipalities, K-12 districts, and higher education stay small. The compliance surface grows faster than the staff available to manage it, and the work does not pause for an audit cycle.
Point-in-time scans leave gaps
A scan run the week before an audit captures the environment on that day. The moment a new server is stood up, a public form ships, or a library is updated, the picture changes. Disconnected tools and one-off scans leave blind spots between audits that attackers actively look for.
Remediation backlogs outpace small teams
Finding vulnerabilities is the easy part. Clearing them is where teams fall behind. A raw report of thousands of findings, sorted by severity rather than real-world exploitability, buries the handful of issues that actually matter and grows faster than a constrained team can work it down.
Audit stress instead of audit readiness
When evidence lives across spreadsheets, screenshots, and vendor portals, every audit becomes a scramble to assemble proof. The result is compliance risk, missed quarterly scan windows, and exposure that surfaces during an assessment instead of being caught and closed in the normal course of operations.
What we deliver
A fully managed scanning and compliance service. Not a tool to operate.
We combine an industry-leading, government-authorized scanning platform with our security team's delivery and oversight, and we handle the full cycle.
- Continuous and scheduled vulnerability scanning across external and internal assets
- Quarterly PCI ASV (Approved Scanning Vendor) external scans to meet PCI DSS requirements
- Web application scanning for public-facing services
- Compliance posture monitoring mapped to PCI DSS, NIST, and CIS
- Risk-based prioritization, remediation guidance, and patch verification
- Audit-ready reporting and attestation support
- Optional virtual CISO (vCISO) oversight for strategy and governance
Engagement tiers
One program: Continuous Security Compliance.Three tiers that grow with you.
Start with baseline compliance and expand into continuous scanning, remediation, and vCISO oversight. Each engagement is scoped to your environment; capabilities and inclusions are shown below, and pricing is by quote.
Scan Essentials
Scheduled vulnerability and PCI ASV scanning with clear, prioritized reporting. The fast, low-friction way to meet baseline compliance.
- Scheduled vulnerability scanning
- Quarterly PCI ASV external scans
- Clear, prioritized reporting
- Baseline PCI DSS compliance coverage
Managed Compliance
Everything in Essentials, plus continuous scanning and the full remediation and reporting cycle across PCI, NIST, and CIS.
- Everything in Scan Essentials
- Continuous scanning between audits
- Web application scanning
- Remediation guidance and patch verification
- Audit-ready reporting across PCI / NIST / CIS
Managed Compliance + vCISO
Everything in Managed Compliance, plus virtual CISO oversight for the strategy and governance layer above the scanning program.
- Everything in Managed Compliance
- Virtual CISO (vCISO) oversight
- Security strategy and governance
- Board and leadership reporting
- Program maturity guidance
Each engagement is scoped to your environment. Contact us for a tailored quote.
Key capabilities
Everything the program covers, in one engagement.
Scanning, prioritization, remediation, and reporting, mapped to the frameworks you are accountable to.
External & internal vulnerability scanning
PCI ASV quarterly external scans
Web application & API scanning
Compliance mapping: PCI DSS, NIST, CIS
Risk-based prioritization (focus on what's exploitable)
Remediation guidance & patch verification
Continuous monitoring between audits
Audit-ready reporting & attestation support
Compliance & trust
A government-authorized platform, operated for you.
The platform authorizations below belong to the underlying scanning platform that eWay operates on your behalf. eWay is the managed services partner that runs it.
FedRAMP-authorized platform
Delivered on an industry-leading, government-authorized scanning platform that holds FedRAMP authorization at Moderate and High. The authorization belongs to the underlying platform that eWay operates on your behalf.
PCI Approved Scanning Vendor
The platform provides PCI Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) scanning capability, including the quarterly external scans PCI DSS requires for compliance.
Procurement-friendly
Procurable through cooperative contract vehicles for state, local, and education buyers, so you can avoid standing up a new competitive procurement from scratch.
US-based delivery team
Operated by a US-based managed services team that runs the platform, prioritizes findings, and produces the evidence, rather than handing you a console to drive.
How it works
Five steps, run continuously.
The program is not a one-time scan. It is an operating cadence that keeps you compliant between audits.
Assess & scope
We map your assets, compliance obligations, and current gaps so the program is scoped to your actual environment.
Onboard & baseline
We configure scanning across external, internal, and web-facing assets and run a baseline assessment.
Scan & prioritize
Continuous and scheduled scans run on cadence, with findings prioritized by real-world exploitable risk.
Remediate & verify
We guide the fixes that matter and verify each one with a re-scan, including the PCI ASV passing-scan cycle.
Report & attest
Audit-ready reporting and attestation support, produced continuously rather than assembled the week of an audit.
Why eWay
We sell the outcome, not a console.
Continuous compliance and reduced risk, delivered as a managed service by a partner accountable across the whole program.
Outcomes, not tools
You do not buy a scanner and learn to operate a console. You get continuous compliance and reduced risk as a managed outcome, with our team accountable for it.
Government-authorized platform, US delivery
A FedRAMP-authorized scanning platform with PCI ASV capability, operated by a US-based delivery team that knows the public-sector context.
Built for how agencies buy
Available through the cooperative procurement vehicles agencies already use, so the path to start is short and predictable.
One accountable partner
Scanning, remediation, compliance reporting, and vCISO strategy under a single engagement, rather than a stack of disconnected vendors.
Outcomes
What the program gives your agency.
Year-round audit readiness
Continuous evidence and reporting replace the point-in-time scramble before each assessment.
Faster, focused remediation
The vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable get fixed first, instead of being buried in a severity-sorted backlog.
Lower compliance risk
Posture mapped to PCI DSS, NIST, and CIS with audit-ready documentation maintained on an ongoing basis.
Freed-up staff, predictable cost
Your team focuses on the mission while the scanning program runs as a managed, predictable service.
Common Questions
What most agencies ask about managed PCI and vulnerability scanning
Do we need to run any of this ourselves?
No. This is a fully managed service. We operate the scanning platform, schedule and run the scans, interpret the results, prioritize what matters, and deliver the reporting and attestation support. You do not buy a scanner and learn to drive a console. You get the outcome: continuous compliance and reduced risk, with a US-based delivery team accountable for it. Your staff stay focused on the mission instead of operating security tooling.
Does this meet PCI DSS scanning requirements?
Yes, including the quarterly external scans by an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) that PCI DSS requires. We run the required quarterly ASV external scans, support the remediation and re-scan cycle until a passing scan is achieved, and produce the evidence you need for your attestation. We map your posture to PCI DSS and provide the audit-ready reporting that goes with it.
How do you handle remediation?
We prioritize findings by real-world risk, not by raw severity counts, so your team works on what is actually exploitable in your environment first. For each prioritized finding we provide remediation guidance, and once a fix is applied we verify it with a re-scan. The goal is to clear the vulnerabilities that matter rather than hand you a thousand-line report and walk away.
Can government agencies buy this easily?
Yes. The service is available through cooperative procurement vehicles that state, local, and education buyers already use, so you can avoid standing up a new competitive procurement from scratch. Each engagement is scoped to your environment and quoted accordingly. Contact us and we will confirm the right contract path for your agency.
What frameworks do you cover?
PCI DSS is the core, with compliance posture mapped to NIST and CIS as well. Continuous and scheduled scanning, web application scanning, and compliance reporting all reference these frameworks so you have one program that satisfies multiple obligations. The vCISO tier adds broader program governance, security strategy, and leadership reporting on top of the scanning and compliance work.
What platform do you use for scanning?
The service is delivered on an industry-leading, government-authorized scanning platform that holds FedRAMP authorization (Moderate and High) and provides PCI Approved Scanning Vendor capability. eWay operates that platform on your behalf and wraps it with our security team's delivery, prioritization, remediation guidance, and reporting. The platform authorizations belong to the underlying platform; eWay is the managed services partner that runs it for you.
Ready to stay compliant without the overhead?
Talk to the team that would actually run your scanning program.
A short consultation to walk through your environment, your compliance obligations, and where a managed scanning and PCI program fits from where you are today. No tooling to operate, no point-in-time scramble.