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separation of duty

nounid 4123·updated May 9, 2026
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Practice of dividing steps in a function among different individuals, so as to keep a single individual from being able to subvert the process.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems5 citations · 5 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.0403.01.04.b03.01.04.b ¶ 103.01.04.b ¶ 103.01.04.b ¶ 1

Classifications

Entity Type

Control95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
separation-of-duty
plural
separation of duties
possessive
separation of duty's
pluralpossessive
separation of duties'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
Practice of dividing steps in a function among different individuals, so as to keep a single individual from being able to subvert the process.
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
Practice of dividing steps in a function among different individuals, so as to keep a single individual from being able to subvert the process.
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
Practice of dividing steps in a function among different individuals, so as to keep a single individual from being able to subvert the process.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 3 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Practice of dividing steps in a function among different individuals, so as to keep a single individual from being able to subvert the process.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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