PCI DSS 4.0 Requirements – Restrict Access, Identify Users and Authenticate Access

In the early days of computer networking, the idea of restricted permissions was shunned. Network administrators could access every system in the environment. In some extreme cases, a CEO would demand full administrative access to a network, thinking that this would protect against a rogue employee. As you can imagine, this set up a point of failure beyond logic. Fortunately, this ideology of unlimited access has waned, and many C-level executives now realize that they are high-level targets, so they appreciate that their access should be limited to only what they need to run the executive...

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