PCI DSS 4.0
Req 10: Logging and Monitoring

PCI DSS 4.0 10.3.3: 10.3.3 Audit logs promptly backed up to central secure storage

Audit log files, including logs from external-facing technologies, must be promptly backed up to one or more secure, central, internal log servers or to other media that is hard to modify. Applies to all entities. The guidance gives wireless, DNS servers, mail servers and network security controls as examples of external-facing sources, and notes that each entity chooses how to back up logs, whether written directly, offloaded or copied to the secure store. Objective under the customized approach: the stored records of activity are held securely in a central place so they cannot be modified without authorization.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 39 controls across 16 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 5 controls

CMMC 2.0 · 4 controls

FedRAMP High · 4 controls

  • AU-4 Audit Log Storage Capacity
  • AU-6(3) Correlate Audit Record Repositories
  • AU-7(1) Automatic Processing
  • CP-9 System Backup

FedRAMP Moderate · 4 controls

  • AU-4 Audit Log Storage Capacity
  • AU-6(3) Correlate Audit Record Repositories
  • AU-7(1) Automatic Processing
  • CP-9 System Backup

SOC 2 · 3 controls

  • SOC2-A1.2 A1.2 Environmental protection, backup and recovery infrastructure
  • SOC2-CC7.1 CC7.1 Detecting configuration changes and new vulnerabilities
  • SOC2-CC7.2 CC7.2 Monitoring system components for anomalies

ACSC Essential Eight · 2 controls

  • E8-APP-ML2 Application Control (ML2)
  • E8-UAH-ML3 User Application Hardening - Maturity Level 3

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • C5-OPS-10 Logging and Monitoring - Concept
  • C5-OPS-14 Logging and Monitoring - Storage of the Logging Data

CIS Controls v8 · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

ISO 27701:2019 · 2 controls

  • SEC04-BP02 Capture logs, findings, and metrics in standardized locations
  • LT-5 Centralize security log management and analysis
  • 03.03.08 Protection of Audit Information

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in Req 10: Logging and Monitoring

You are reading one control. How much of PCI DSS 4.0 have you already done?

PCI DSS 4.0 10.3.3 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of PCI DSS 4.0 your existing evidence covers. Hold ISO 27001:2022 and 139 of 280 PCI DSS 4.0 controls already carry evidence.

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 415 were rejected on the ISO 27001:2022 pair alone.

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