separation of duties
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separation of duties
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The requirement that two or more people must be involved in order to complete a high-risk task.
In modern business, tasks that require separation of duties include: Deployment of a nuclear weapon. Two or more staff members are required to insert a key or type a password. Opening a bank vault. Two vault tellers each possess one half of the combination to the vault.
Similar: segregation of duties, SoD
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