Comment by jjav
2 days ago
> the policy isn't a requirement for e.g. SOC2 or whatever
It is a PCI requirement and probably from other sources.
Of course it is brain dead and we even have authoritative documentation from NIST explaining why it is stupid, but nobody at PCI has any technical skills to understand that so the madness lives on.
>It is a PCI requirement
The only requirement for password rotation in PCI DSS v4.0 is if the password is the only form of authentication (i.e. no MFA). Use MFA (which you should be anyways) and you don't need to enforce password rotation.
>Clarified that this requirement applies if passwords/passphrases are used as the only authentication factor for user access (i.e., in any single-factor authentication implementation).
>Added the option to determine access to resources automatically by dynamically analyzing the security posture of accounts, instead of changing passwords/passphrases at least once every 90 days.
It is for sure not a PCI requirement that user system passwords need to be changed on any kind of interval. At least, I've been a member of several PCI-compliant organizations that did not have or enforce this policy.