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duties of individuals requiring separation

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This is a compositional phrase, not a term of art. In NIST SP 800-53 AC-5, it appears inside an organization-defined assignment parameter: "Identify and document [Assignment: organization-defined duties of individuals requiring separation]." The phrase simply names the object of that assignment — the set of role-based responsibilities an organization must enumerate before it can enforce separation of duties — and its meaning is fully assembled from its ordinary parts. The two-step operational expectation is to "identify the duties of individuals requiring separation" and then "define system access authorizations to support separation of duties," making plain that the phrase is a procedural instruction, not a coined concept.

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Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage reviewer confirmed

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
duties of individuals requiring separations
possessive
duties of individuals requiring separation's
pluralpossessive
duties of individuals requiring separations'