Segregation of Duties
Segregation of Duties is the principle of preventing a single person or team from holding conflicting powers that would allow uncontrolled sensitive actions.
- Acronym
- SoD
- Synonym
- SoD
Definition
Segregation of Duties, or SoD, is a control model used to prevent toxic combinations of responsibilities or access rights. It is designed to reduce fraud, abuse, and concentration of power by ensuring that sensitive actions such as creation and approval, or administration and control, are not combined inappropriately.
The Ariovis perspective
Segregation of duties must be tied to meaningful risk scenarios and supported by ownership, detection, decisions and remediation. A static list of conflicts is not enough.
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