PCI DSS 4.0
Req 12: Information Security Policies

PCI DSS 4.0 12.6.2: 12.6.2 Awareness program reviewed annually and updated

The security awareness program needs a review, at least every 12 months, with updates made when required to address new threats and vulnerabilities that could affect cardholder data or sensitive authentication data, or to refresh what personnel are told about their part in safeguarding cardholder data. Objective under the customized approach: awareness material content is reviewed and refreshed periodically. 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 26 controls across 18 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 27701:2019 · 3 controls

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • AT-1 Policy and Procedures
  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • AT-1 Policy and Procedures
  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness

ISO 22301:2019 · 2 controls

  • 10.1 Nonconformity and corrective action
  • 7.2 Competence
  • NIST-CSF-GV.OV-01 Cybersecurity risk management strategy outcomes are reviewed to inform and adjust strategy and direction
  • NIST-CSF-PR.AT-01 Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform general tasks with cybersecurity risks in mind

NIST SP 800-172 · 2 controls

  • 3.2.1e Provide Awareness Training on Advanced Persistent Threat
  • 3.2.2e Practical Exercises in Awareness Training

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • AUCDR-IS-6 Information security training and awareness program

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-HR-03 Security training and awareness programme

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-14.1 Establish and Maintain a Security Awareness Program

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training
  • 03.02.01 Literacy Training and Awareness

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC1.4 CC1.4 Attracting, developing and retaining competent people (COSO principle 4)

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 12.6.2 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.

Query this from an agent

The graph holds this control, the 26 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.