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Can Edgescan Help Me Map Vulnerabilities To Common Compliance Criteria?

Edgescan’s Compliance Advice insight highlights vulnerabilities that directly impact your ability to maintain compliance with major security and data protection frameworks. The analysis maps validated vulnerabilities to specific certification requirements, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, helping you see exactly where technical weaknesses could lead to compliance failures.

Version Number: v1.0.5

Published Date: 10 Sept 2025

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What is the compliance advice in AI Insights?

Edgescan’s Compliance Advice insight highlights vulnerabilities that directly impact your ability to maintain compliance with major security and data protection frameworks. The analysis maps validated vulnerabilities to specific certification requirements, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, helping you see exactly where technical weaknesses could lead to compliance failures.

Every organization will have different compliance requirements, let the Edgescan team know what compliance criteria is important to you organization and we can tailor AI Insights to provide tailored outputs.

How does it work?

  1. Vulnerability Discovery
    Edgescan continuously scans and validates vulnerabilities across your estate (applications, APIs, cloud, network, and mobile).

  2. Compliance Mapping
    Each confirmed vulnerability is correlated with relevant compliance requirements. For example:

    • Weak encryption → PCI DSS 3.4, HIPAA Transmission Security, ISO 27001 Cryptography controls

    • SQL injection → PCI DSS 6.5, SOC 2 Security Criteria, GDPR Article 32

    • Authentication weaknesses → PCI DSS 8.2, HIPAA Access Control, ISO 27001 Access Management

  3. Risk Categorization
    Vulnerabilities are grouped into compliance-impacting categories, including:

    • Authentication & access control issues

    • Data protection & encryption weaknesses

    • SQL injection vulnerabilities

    • Critical remote code execution flaws (e.g., Log4Shell, ProxyShell, BlueKeep)

    • Sensitive data exposure

  4. Asset Correlation
    The analysis highlights which assets present the highest compliance risk, allowing focused remediation on systems most likely to cause audit findings.

  5. Actionable Guidance
    AI Insights provides clear next steps, including patching priorities, control improvements, and targeted assessments for high-risk assets.

Features & Benefits

  • Audit Readiness: Quickly identify vulnerabilities that could cause compliance gaps during certification reviews.

  • Targeted Remediation: Focus effort on the assets and vulnerabilities with the highest compliance impact.

  • Framework Alignment: Understand exactly how vulnerabilities map to PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR requirements.

  • Reduced Business Risk: Minimize the chance of fines, penalties, or certification failures linked to security weaknesses.

  • Executive Reporting: Provide leadership with a clear view of compliance-related risks, not just raw vulnerability data.

Common Use-Cases

  • PCI DSS Gap Assessment: Validate whether systems handling payment data meet requirements for encryption, secure development, and access control.

  • HIPAA Security Rule Compliance: Identify vulnerabilities that put protected health information at risk through weak authentication or unencrypted transmissions.

  • SOC 2 Readiness: Map vulnerabilities to Trust Service Criteria for confidentiality and security.

  • GDPR Compliance Monitoring: Highlight weaknesses that impact “security of processing” (Article 32) and “data protection by design” (Article 25).

  • ISO 27001 Audits: Demonstrate systematic identification and remediation of vulnerabilities tied to key Annex A controls.