Automation is key to reducing the operational impact of recurring tasks, assessments, and ensuring consistency. Documenting where your assessment evidence lives, who is responsible for it, how it works, and keeping it up to date can save a tremendous amount of time during the assessment. Automation, configuration management, centralized logging, and log review dashboards are all things that are useful to the security operation regardless of assessments. The intent of any assessment is to understand areas of risk with an eye on remediating vulnerabilities and improving your operation.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/tech-insight-navigating-the-murky-waters-of-pci-implementation