BlackBox Auditor has taken the burden out of meeting several PCI Data Security Standard Requirements. Our team of Compliance experts, including PCI QSAs have created a hardened Windows 2016 server image (AMI). We took the cost and effort to create a secure Windows 2016 image that meets PCI compliance requirements. The hardened image is based on several industry best practices including Microsoft's Windows Server Security Guide and the CIS Benchmark for Windows 2016.

A mapping of applied security settings and their associated PCI DSS 3.2.1 requirement number to both CIS benchmarks and Windows best practices is included.

Note: The image has been custom tailored by our security team who include PCI QSAs, it is BASED on these industry best practices but does not fully conform to any one standard or best practice document. Years of experience has taught us that fully implementing any security standard (like the Center for Internet Security baselines) will cause problems. Our custom-tailored security settings have been designed by QSAs to meet PCI DSS requirements while allowing for the greatest compatibility.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include Enterprise Windows-based application hosting, website and web-service hosting, data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software.