Strong cryptography must be used to make all authentication factors unreadable both in transit and at rest on every system component. The testing procedures examine factor repositories and data transmissions. The guidance explains that some network devices and applications have sent or stored passwords in cleartext, letting an attacker capture them with a sniffer or read the files where they sit and then reuse them. Customized approach objective: nobody can obtain, derive or reuse a cleartext authentication factor by intercepting traffic or reading stored data.
This control maps to 43 controls across 21 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
You are reading one control. How much of PCI DSS 4.0 have you already done?
PCI DSS 4.0 8.3.2 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.