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separation of duties
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separation of duties
A security principle that says no one person should be able to effect a breach of security. For example, the person who writes a check should not be the one to sign it. Separation of duties requires that people who make changes in production source code hand off their changes to someone else for installation control. Separation of duties forces rogue employees into attempting collusion and thus risking discovery by honest coworkers. See dual control.


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But the article did note the problems with segregation of duties and other internal control issues.
Segregation of duties (SoD) is a primary component -- to ensure that access is appropriate for a particular job function or role so that transmission information can't be used to manipulate market pricing.
Oracle has extended its Oracle Identity Manager capabilities which includes a new Segregation of Duties (SoD) integration architecture that provides complete, hot-pluggable support for all leading SoD engines.
 
 
 
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