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A Magento 2 module to bring the use of admin accounts in-line with the PCI DSS 4.0 requirements, with changes covering the following requirements:

• 8.2.6
  • Inactive user accounts are removed or disabled within 90 days of inactivity
• 8.2.8
  • If a user session has been idle for more than 15 minutes, the user is required to re-authenticate to re-activate the terminal or session.
• 8.3.4
  • Invalid authentication attempts are limited by:
    • Locking out the user ID after not more than 10 attempts.
    • Setting the lockout duration to a minimum of 30 minutes or until the user’s identity is confirmed.
• 8.3.6
  • If passwords/passphrases are used as authentication factors to meet Requirement 8.3.1, they meet the following minimum level of complexity:
    • A minimum length of 12 characters (or IF the system does not support 12 characters, a minimum length of eight characters).
    • Contain both numeric and alphabetic characters

The changes invovled for each requirement are as follows:

• 8.2.6
  • A new cron job (scheduled once per day) will automatically make any account that has not logged in for 90 days inactive
• 8.2.8
  • The configuration setting in admin for idle timeout has been modified to only accept values less than or equal to 900 seconds (15 minutes).
• 8.3.4
  • The configuration setting in admin for the number of incorrect login attempts before an account is locked has been modified to only accept values less than or equal to 10.
  • The configuration setting in admin for the time an account is locked for has been modified to only accept values greater than or equal to 30.
• 8.3.6
  • The minimum number of characters a password must have has been increased from 7 to 12.

Installation

composer require aligent/magento2-pci-4-compatibility
bin/magento module:enable Aligent_Pci4Compatibility
bin/magento setup:upgrade