My score is under 60, what should I do in the next 7 days?
A sub-60 score means at least one critical-severity control is failing. The 7-day stabilisation plan:
Day 1 (today):
- Force-enable admin 2FA if it’s not (q1). 2-hour fix, eliminates the #1 attack vector.
- Rotate all admin passwords. 1 hour.
- Set the admin IP allowlist at nginx/WAF level (q3). 30 min.
Day 2-3:
- Apply all outstanding Adobe security patches (q16, q17). 1 day including UAT.
- If on TLS < 1.2, fix the load balancer config (q6). 30 min.
- Enable HSTS with a short max-age (q7). 1 hour.
Day 4-5:
- Take a fresh encrypted backup + verify the restore works (q11). 2 hours.
- Verify no raw PAN is stored anywhere (q13). Query:
SELECT * FROM sales_order_payment WHERE cc_number IS NOT NULL;, should return zero rows. - Check the PCI scope (q12) with your acquirer; if it’s SAQ D, move to a hosted/tokenized checkout.
Day 6-7:
- Publish security.txt (q22). 1 hour.
- Write a one-page IR plan (q24): who calls who, escalation tree, customer-notification thresholds. Even a 1-page draft beats nothing.
- Re-run the audit. You should be over 70 by end of week.
If anything in the critical-severity list still scores "No" by day 7, that’s a deep-audit conversation. Book one.