PCI Requirement 10.2.6

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Audit reports provide available documentation and compliance artifacts that help you demonstrate compliance with requirements of the PCI DSS.

The PCI Requirement 10.2.6 report describes, and provides access to, log searches in the Alert Logic console that help demonstrate compliance with Requirement 10.2.6.

To access the PCI Requirement 10.2.6 report:

  1. In the Alert Logic console, click the menu icon (), and then click Validate.
  2. Click Reports, and then click Compliance.
  3. Under PCI DSS Audit, click VIEW.
  4. Click PCI Requirement 10.2.6.

The report summary page displays two columns. Testing Procedures lists each procedure that is required for this testing PCI requirement. Available Documentation and Artifacts describes, and contains links to, the documentation and compliance artifacts that can demonstrate compliance with each testing procedure.

Schedule the report

After you finish setting up the report, you can use CREATE REPORT to run it periodically and subscribe users or an integration (such as a webhook) to receive a notification when the report is generated. To learn how to schedule the report and subscribe notification recipients, see Scheduled Reports and Notifications.

Testing procedure for PCI 10.2.6

This testing procedure verifies that initialization, stopping or pausing of audit logs are logged.

Available Documentation and Artifacts

This report provides you with a link for quick access to the Log Search page where you can search for message types related to the initialization, and stopping or pausing of audit logs. You can use the information on this section to verify systems are configured to log the initialization, and stopping or pausing of audit logs.

The report page includes a link to an Alert Logic Knowledge Base article that contains the recommended log search statements you can use on the Alert Logic Log Search page.