In force since 31 March 2025

PCI DSS 12.3.3: document every cipher suite you run.

Requirement 12.3.3 of PCI DSS 4.0.1 is no longer a future best practice — it has been mandatory since March 2025. CipherM produces the documented inventory your QSA asks for, generated from your real code, configs, and live TLS.

What 12.3.3 actually requires

Three obligations, one inventory.

01

Document what's in use

Maintain an up-to-date inventory of every cryptographic cipher suite and protocol in use across your cardholder-data environment.

02

Review every 12 months

Re-confirm the inventory at least once a year, and whenever your environment changes — actively monitoring for anything weak or deprecated.

03

Have a response plan

Keep a documented strategy to respond to anticipated changes in cryptographic viability, so deprecations don't catch you mid-assessment.

Paraphrased from PCI DSS v4.0.1, Requirement 12.3.3. The usual stand-in — a spreadsheet rebuilt by hand before each assessment — is exactly what auditors increasingly reject as stale.

How CipherM delivers it

A real inventory, not a hand-built spreadsheet.

Scans all three surfaces

Source code, configuration files (java.security, OpenSSL, TLS configs), and your live endpoints. Network-only scanners miss your code; source-only tools miss your runtime TLS. CipherM covers both.

Outputs a CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM

The industry-standard cryptographic bill of materials — machine-readable, diffable, and interoperable. The documented inventory 12.3.3 asks for, in a format that outlives any one vendor.

Maps each finding to 12.3.3

Every cipher suite and protocol is tagged with its requirement reference and a deprecation note, packaged as a QSA-citable evidence report — the artifact your assessor signs off.

Tracks the annual review

Re-run on a schedule, keep an audit trail, and compare year over year — so the 12-month review is a button, not a fire drill.

Future-proofs for post-quantum

The same scan flags every RSA/ECDSA asset for the eventual post-quantum migration — so one inventory answers today's mandate and tomorrow's.

Get 12.3.3 off your audit list.

A fixed-scope, two-week Rapid Assessment: we scan your code, configs, and TLS, review by hand, and hand you a CycloneDX CBOM plus a QSA-ready 12.3.3 evidence pack. No six-month enterprise sales cycle.