Separate duties of individuals to reduce risk of malevolent activity
Access Control · NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2
Requirement
Separate the duties of individuals to reduce the risk of malevolent activity without collusion.
Discussion
Separation of duties addresses the potential for abuse of authorized privileges and helps to reduce the risk of malevolent activity without collusion. Separation of duties includes dividing mission functions and system support functions among different individuals or roles; conducting system support functions with different individuals (e.g., configuration management, quality assurance and testing, system management, programming, and network security); and ensuring that security personnel admini
How this affects your SPRS score
Under the DoD Assessment Methodology, a perfect SPRS score is 110. If this control is not met, 1 point is subtracted from your score.
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