PCI Remediation Report 2025

PCI remediation costs average $78k/year for mid-market organisations in 2025. Small organisations with limited scope typically spend $28–45k; enterprises with complex environments spend $140k+. Financial services and healthcare have the highest costs due to legacy systems and dual-framework requirements.

PCI remediation takes an average of 7.2 weeks from gap identification to QSA-ready compliance for mid-market organisations. Organisations using automated remediation playbooks and pre-built control templates complete remediation in 3.5–4.5 weeks — a 38% compression versus manual-only programmes.

The top three remediation cost drivers are: (1) network segmentation work — accounts for 28% of total remediation cost, (2) patch management catch-up for systems that have drifted beyond the 30-day patching SLA — 22% of cost, and (3) evidence documentation for controls that are technically in place but not properly documented — 18% of cost.

The three highest-ROI remediation cost reduction strategies are: continuous control monitoring (prevents drift-triggered emergency remediation — the most expensive kind), automated evidence collection (eliminates the 18% of costs from documentation gaps), and pre-built remediation playbooks (cut execution time by 40% through template reuse).