How to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance for Azure Azure AD
How to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance for Azure Azure AD
PCI DSS compliance is critical to protecting cardholder data that is processed, stored, and transmitted. Pulumi can assist you with making your Azure infrastructure PCI DSS compliant. Pulumi can help you identify existing cloud resources that are not in compliance, and it can also enforce compliance policies proactively before infrastructure is deployed. Get started with Pulumi to use these compliance tools or speak with a Solutions Architect to get an expert consultation.
What is PCI DSS Compliance?
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance refers to the adherence to a set of security standards designed to protect card information during and after a financial transaction. These standards are established by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), which was founded by major credit card companies like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB.
Key Aspects of PCI DSS Compliance
- Security Controls: Organizations must implement specific technical and operational security measures to safeguard cardholder data. This includes requirements like installing firewalls, encrypting cardholder data, and using antivirus software.
- Access Control: Only authorized personnel should have access to cardholder data. This involves setting up strong access control measures, such as unique user IDs and restricting physical access to sensitive data.
- Monitoring and Testing: Regularly monitor and test networks to ensure that security controls are functioning correctly and to identify vulnerabilities. This includes maintaining logs of all access to network resources and cardholder data.
- Information Security Policy: Organizations must maintain a policy that addresses information security for employees and contractors. This includes regular security awareness training.
- Regular Audits: Organizations that process, store, or transmit credit card information must undergo regular audits to ensure they are in compliance with PCI DSS requirements. This can involve self-assessment or external assessments, depending on the size of the organization and the volume of transactions processed.
Pulumi Insights
Use Pulumi Insights to gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure's configuration to assess PCI DSS compliance. Pulumi Insights is Intelligent Cloud Management. It helps you gain security, compliance, and cost insights into the entirety of your organization's cloud assets and automatically remediate issues.
Pulumi Copilot
Use Pulumi Copilot to assist configuring your infrastructure to make it compliance ready. You can tap into the Pulumi Copilot's deep understanding of your organization's context to gain visibility into the configuration of resources and assess their compliance.
Compliance Ready Policies
With comprehensive coverage of Azure, Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies provide an enhanced level of control and governance over your cloud resources. Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies empower you to enforce best practices, security standards, cost controls, and compliance requirements seamlessly within your infrastructure-as-code workflows.
What is Azure AD?
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps organizations manage users and control access to resources. It enables secure single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and conditional access policies, providing enhanced security and user experience across applications. Azure AD integrates with on-premises Active Directory, other Microsoft services, and third-party apps to centralize identity management in hybrid and cloud environments.
What controls can I put in place to evaluate Azure AD resources?
- Azure AD roles should not allow full administrative privileges with wildcard actions (*)
- Azure AD users should not have custom roles or policies attached that grant excessive permissions
- Azure AD users' credentials should be rotated every 90 days or less
- Azure AD tenant administrator accounts should not have direct access keys
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be enabled for all Azure AD users with access to the Azure portal
- Hardware MFA should be enabled for global administrator accounts
- Password policies for Azure AD users should enforce strong configurations, including complexity requirements
- Unused Azure AD user credentials should be removed after a specified period
- MFA should be enabled for all Azure AD users with administrative access
- Password policies for Azure AD users should have strong configurations
- Ensure Azure AD password policy requires at least one uppercase letter
- Ensure Azure AD password policy requires at least one lowercase letter
- Ensure Azure AD password policy requires at least one symbol
- Ensure Azure AD password policy requires at least one number
- Ensure Azure AD password policy requires a minimum password length of 14 or greater
- Ensure Azure AD password policy prevents password reuse
- Ensure Azure AD password policy expires passwords within 90 days or less
- Ensure a support role has been created for incident management and Azure support
- MFA should be enabled for all Azure AD users
- Azure AD custom roles created should not allow wildcard actions
- Azure AD user credentials that have been unused for 45 days or more should be removed
- Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) analyzers should be tagged for audit purposes
- Azure AD roles should be tagged for governance
- Azure AD users should be tagged for better access control and auditing
- Expired SSL/TLS certificates managed in Azure AD should be removed
- Azure AD identities should not have excessive permissions like Azure Cloud Shell Full Access policy attached
- Azure AD Access Reviews and Conditional Access analyzers should be enabled for security monitoring
Speak to a Solutions Architect to implement policy as code to manage Azure AD resources for PCI DSS compliance.
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