AC-5 Separation of Duties
Control: Enforce separation of duties through assigned access authorizations.
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Organizations must confirm that there is appropriate segregation of duties between the staff responsible for moving a program into production and the staff responsible for developing a program. In addition, organizations must consider whether or not, a change to a program is performed in a segregated and controlled environment.
To satisfy this control objective, administrators must ensure that logins to reporting servers and permissions assigned to these users are appropriate for the tasks they are allowed to perform. Users with overlapping permission sets should indicate a compromise in the segregation of duties control consideration. Administrators should also review the process to request and grant access to systems and data and confirm that the same person does not perform these functions.
Organizations must demonstrate that only authorized users have access to sensitive data and applications, and implement a division of roles and responsibilities that reduce the possibility for a single individual to subvert a critical process. Management also makes sure that personnel is performing only authorized duties relevant to their respective jobs and positions.