PCI-3.1

Keep cardholder information storage to a minimum. Develop a data retention and disposal policy. Limit your storage amount and retention time to that which is required for business, legal, and/or regulatory purposes, as documented in the data retention policy.

PCI-3.1: Obtain the company policies and procedures for data retention and disposal, and observe that these policies and procedures include:

• Legal, regulatory, and business requirements for data retention, including specific requirements for retention of cardholder data (e.g., cardholder data needs to be held for X period for Y business reasons).
• Disposal of data when no longer needed for legal, regulatory, or business reasons, including disposal of cardholder data.
• Coverage for all storage of cardholder data, including database servers, mainframes, transfer directories, and bulk data copy directories used to transfer data between servers, and directories used to normalize data between server transfers.
• A programmatic (automatic) process to remove, at least on a quarterly basis, stored cardholder data that exceeds business retention requirements. Alternatively, performance of an audit, at least on a quarterly basis, to verify that stored cardholder data does not exceed business retention requirements.

Testing Procedures

Insert testing guidance here.

Testing Frequency

Describe testing frequency here.

Evidence Archive Location

Insert hyperlink or location of evidence archive.

Control Stewards Process Narrative

Provide control steward commentary indicating the formal methodology in place.

Control Steward – Jon Doe

Process Illustration

Replace this test by inserting a process diagram, flowchart or other visual representation to illustrate the process narrative as necessary. Include a brief description of the process illustration.

Control Status and Auditors Commentary

The control is effective.

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Status is acceptable.

Control Exception Commentary

Status is acceptable.

Remediation Plan

Remediation is not required at this time.

--Mdpeters 09:46, 28 February 2007 (EST)