PCI DSS 4.0
Req 12: Information Security Policies

PCI DSS 4.0 12.5.3: 12.5.3 Scope review after significant organisational change

Service providers only: when the organisational structure changes significantly, the entity must carry out and document an internal review of the effect on PCI DSS scope and on which controls apply, and report the results to executive management. The guidance gives examples of such changes: mergers or acquisitions and major changes or reassignments of personnel responsible for security controls. Applicability: applies only when the assessed entity is a service provider. Objective under the customized approach: scope gets reconfirmed after a major organisational change. Future-dated: treated as a best practice up to 31 March 2025 and mandatory since then.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 30 controls across 17 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ISO 22301:2019 · 4 controls

  • 4.3.2 Scope of the business continuity management system
  • 6.3 Planning changes to the business continuity management system
  • 8.2.2 Business impact analysis
  • 9.3.2 Management review input

ISO 27701:2019 · 4 controls

  • 5.2.3 Determining the scope of the information security management system
  • 5.6.2 Information security risk assessment
  • 5.7.3 Management review
  • 6.3.1 Internal organization

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • CM-4 Impact Analyses
  • RA-3 Risk Assessment

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • CM-4 Impact Analyses
  • RA-3 Risk Assessment

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.22 Monitoring, review and change management of supplier services
  • 8.32 Change management

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.22 Monitoring, review and change management of supplier services
  • 8.32 Change management

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

APRA CPS 234 · 1 control

  • CPS234-P31 Annual Review of Testing Program Sufficiency

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-DEV-05 Risk assessment, categorisation and prioritisation of changes
  • CFTC-SS-32 Timely Advance Notice of Material Planned Changes

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

  • NIST-CSF-ID.RA-07 Changes and exceptions are managed, assessed for risk impact, recorded, and tracked

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC3.4 CC3.4 Identifying and assessing significant changes (COSO principle 9)

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 12: Information Security Policies

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

PCI DSS 4.0 12.5.3 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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The graph holds this control, the 30 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.