Segregation of Duties
What is Segregation of Duties?
A governance control that requires more than one person to complete different parts of a task, preventing fraud and errors through shared responsibilities.
Terms that appear alongside segregation of duties
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as segregation of duties. The number is how many controls name both.
- least privilege 11 shared controls
- authentication 11 shared controls
- access management 8 shared controls
- access control 8 shared controls
- audit 8 shared controls
- governance 8 shared controls
- business continuity 5 shared controls
- encryption 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern segregation of duties
What the standards actually require on segregation of duties
Requirements naming segregation of duties across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Management designs jobs so that more than one person is needed to complete critical or sensitive tasks, evaluates who is granted system administrator privileges and monitors their activity, monitors privileged users independently, distributes administration so...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::IS-II.C.7(c) · II.C.7(c) Segregation of Duties (Information Security) →Duties and areas of responsibility that conflict with each other are to be kept apart. Purpose: cut the chance of fraud, mistakes and circumvention of security controls.
iso-27002-2022::5.3 · Segregation of duties →Separate conflicting duties on the basis of the documented risk assessment, at minimum across rights administration and access approval, change development, testing and release, and system operation, and where separation is not feasible monitor those activitie...
C5-OIS-04 · Segregation of Duties →Rights over data, programs, functions and other protected assets is granted, changed or removed according to roles, responsibilities or system design and changes, applying least privilege and segregation of duties.
SOC2-CC6.3 · CC6.3 Role-based access, least privilege and segregation of duties →The plan must require that the authorisation privileges of accounts that reach IAC cyber assets are managed on every human-access interface, that privileges are managed by user role (system administrators, security administrators, technicians, nonlocal users),...
api-1164::PR.AC-4 · PR.AC-4 Role-based authorisation with least privilege and segregation of duties →This anti-pattern is present when users hold access that breaks a segregation of duties requirement, letting them bypass validation and verification checks; to attain the level it must be absent, with violations found and mitigated.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::ACCESS-AP6 · ACCESS-AP6: Anti-pattern: access that breaches segregation of duties →Questions people ask about segregation of duties
What is Segregation of Duties?
Why is Segregation of Duties important for compliance?
Which compliance frameworks address Segregation of Duties?
Where can I learn more about Segregation of Duties?
See how Segregation of Duties applies across compliance frameworks
Our platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.