We are a UK-based company, but our operations are in Italy. When we looked for a QSA we had few challenges to find "the right" partner, since we had few issues to overcome: English language, no PCI DSS knowledge, time zone etc. It was critical to partner with a company that has a "partnership" attitude rather than "assessor" attitude. SecurityMetrics has guided us with a straightforward framework since the first day, and supplied several example of documents, which were very useful. Once we achieved the PCI DSS accreditation, the assessors were still there to answer for any query we needed.
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