Segregation of Duties Explained for IAM and Cybersecurity Students
A simple guide to segregation of duties, conflicting access, policy controls, and study examples for IAM and cybersecurity training.
Segregation of duties, often called SoD, prevents one person from holding combinations of access that create too much risk. It is an important concept in identity governance, audit, finance systems, and cybersecurity.
A simple example
In a finance application, the ability to create a vendor and approve a payment may be a conflicting combination. Separating those duties reduces the risk of error or fraud.
How IAM supports SoD
Identity platforms can detect conflicting entitlements during an access request, trigger an approval or exception process, and record the risk decision. Access reviews can also identify conflicts that already exist.
Study approach
List critical business actions, identify risky combinations, assign owners, and decide how an exception should be approved and reviewed. This turns an abstract policy concept into an operational control.
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