11.1.2 Roles for security testing assigned and understood

The responsibilities for carrying out each activity in Requirement 11 must be written down, allocated to named roles or people, and understood by those people. Illustrative scope: who runs internal and external scans, who commissions and reviews penetration tests, who watches IDS/IPS and change-detection alerts, and who handles wireless access point detection. Guidance (good practice): roles can sit inside the policies and procedures or in a separate document such as a RACI matrix, and entities can consider having staff acknowledge their assignments. Customized approach objective: day-to-day duties for all Requirement 11 activities are allocated and personnel are held accountable for their ongoing, successful operation.

Source: PCI DSS v4.0.1, 11.1.2. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open PCI DSS v4.0.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.0.1 is the active version; 4.0 has been retired. Appendix A1 applies only to multi-tenant service providers, A2 only to card-present POS POI terminals that still use SSL or early TLS, and A3 only when a payment brand or acquirer requires it. Which requirements apply to you follows your validation type.