The UAE's Specialist PCI DSS Consultancy

pcidss.ae is a specialist practice within the NomadX consulting family, focused exclusively on PCI DSS compliance and payment security for merchants, banks, fintechs, and payment service providers across the UAE and GCC.

Why a Dedicated PCI DSS Practice

PCI DSS is complex, highly specific, and rapidly evolving. PCI DSS v4.0 introduced 64 new requirements and a fundamentally different approach to customized controls. Understanding which requirements apply to which payment environment, how to scope correctly, what evidence actually satisfies a QSA — this is specialist knowledge that generalist IT firms consistently get wrong.

Our consultants have worked on PCI DSS assessments across UAE payment environments: e-commerce merchants, acquiring banks, payment gateways, and CBUAE-licensed payment service providers. We understand both the technical controls and the UAE regulatory context in which they operate.

Part of the NomadX Family

pcidss.ae operates within the NomadX consulting family — alongside nomadx.ae (AI Agents Consulting), devsecops.ae (DevSecOps), kubernetes.ae (Cloud Infrastructure), pentest.ae (AI Security Testing), bugs.ae (Bug Bounty), and ledgers.ae (Agentic Payments). This gives our clients access to cross-disciplinary expertise when their PCI DSS compliance journey requires it:

• pentest.ae for PCI DSS Requirement 11 penetration testing
• devsecops.ae for CI/CD security and secure development practices
• ledgers.ae for agentic payment infrastructure and fintech advisory

Based in Dubai, UAE

We operate from Dubai with deep knowledge of the UAE payment regulatory environment — CBUAE licensing requirements, DFSA technology risk frameworks, VARA compliance obligations, and the UAE card scheme landscape. PCI DSS compliance in the UAE is not identical to PCI DSS compliance in the UK or US — local context matters, and we bring it.