Organization should perform background checks for CDE access personnel
High
Cross-cloud
General
manual-pci-background-checks
How to fix it
Conduct background checks for personnel with access to the cardholder data environment prior to granting access. Include criminal history, credit history, and employment verification where legally permitted.
How to verify
- Verify background check policy exists
- Confirm checks completed for all CDE-access personnel
Compliance frameworks
Is your environment compliant with this rule?
CGPulse checks it — and 621 others — against your Azure and AWS accounts with read-only access.
Related Cross-cloud rules
- Block storage volumes must be encrypted
- Cache service security hardening
- Cache services must enforce TLS encryption in transit
- Container registry security hardening
- Database authentication must use managed identities
- Databases must not be publicly accessible
- IAM password policy must require minimum length of 14
- Key management service security hardening