Safety & Security
Separation of Duties
Dividing incompatible responsibilities so one principal cannot complete a sensitive operation alone. The separation can be enforced through roles or at execution time. Merely giving two agents different names does not create independence if they share the same authority or can approve each other without constraint.
Also called: Separation of Duty, SoD
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