separation of duty
nounid
4123·updated May 9, 2026verified
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 Systems
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
- §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.
- §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.
- §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.
- §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.
- §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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