FIM

A questions I hear often is: “How do we manage PCI Compliance for containers when they’re destroyed and recreated constantly?” It’s a legitimate concern. In this post I write about file integrity monitoring when containerization is used (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, etc) Traditional FIM tools were built for static servers that run for months or years. But containers? They live for minutes, hours, maybe days. The PCI-DSS standard doesn’t give you a pass just because you’re using modern infrastructure. Requirement 11.5.2 still applies, you still need to detect unauthorized file modifications. The approach just looks completely different.

PCI-DSS 11.5.2 - Guidance and Full Technical Deep Dive # (On-Prem, Hybrid, and Native) # I remember sitting in my first PCI assessment years ago, watching a QSA flip through pages of documentation. When we got to Requirement 11.5.2, file integrity monitoring, the conversation hit a wall. The requirement seemed straightforward on paper, but translating it into a hybrid environment with on-prem servers, AWS workloads, and network appliances? That’s where the real work begins.