ISO 27001:2022
Organizational controls – ISO 27001:2022

ISO 27001:2022 5.3: Segregation of duties

Duties and areas of responsibility that conflict with each other are to be kept apart. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): reduces the risk of fraud, error and circumvention of information security controls. As an Annex A reference control, it is compared with the controls determined in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability as included or excluded, with the justification and implementation status (6.1.3 d); implementation guidance is ISO/IEC 27002:2022 5.3.

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This control maps to 51 controls across 34 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

PCI DSS 4.0 · 6 controls

  • 10.1.2 10.1.2 Roles for logging and monitoring assigned and understood
  • 3.7.6 3.7.6 Split knowledge and dual control for manual key operations
  • 6.5.4 6.5.4 Separate roles between production and pre-production
  • 7.2.4 7.2.4 User accounts and privileges reviewed every six months
  • 7.2.5 7.2.5 Application and system accounts least privilege
  • 8.6.1 8.6.1 Interactive use of system accounts controlled

FedRAMP High · 3 controls

  • AC-5 Separation of Duties
  • CM-5 Access Restrictions for Change
  • SC-22 Architecture and Provisioning for Name/Address Resolution Service

FedRAMP Moderate · 3 controls

  • AC-5 Separation of Duties
  • CM-5 Access Restrictions for Change
  • SC-22 Architecture and Provisioning for Name/Address Resolution Service
  • ASBv3-GS-2 Define and implement enterprise segmentation/separation of duties strategy
  • PA-1 Separate and limit highly privileged/administrative users

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · 2 controls

  • 5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
  • A.3 Internal organization
  • NIST-CSF-GV.RR-02 Roles, responsibilities, and authorities related to cybersecurity risk management are established, communicated, understood, and enforced
  • NIST-CSF-PR.AA-05 Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and reviewed, and incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

SOC 2 · 2 controls

  • SOC2-CC1.3 CC1.3 Structures, reporting lines, authorities and responsibilities (COSO principle 3)
  • SOC2-CC6.3 CC6.3 Role-based access, least privilege and segregation of duties
  • E8-ADMIN-ML1 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML1)
  • ANSSI-HYG-08 Identify Each Person by Name and Separate User and Administrator Roles

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-5.4 Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator Accounts

COBIT 2019 · 1 control

  • DSS06.03 DSS06.03 Manage roles, responsibilities, access privileges and levels of authority

EU AI Act · 1 control

ISO 14001:2015 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 22000:2018 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 22301:2019 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 27001:2013 · 1 control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Segregation of duties

ISO 27018:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.1.2 Segregation of duties

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Leadership

ISO 37001:2016 · 1 control

  • 5.3 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 37301:2021 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 45001:2018 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 55001:2014 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO 9001:2015 · 1 control

  • 5.3 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities

ISO/IEC 27011:2024 · 1 control

  • 27011-5.3 Segregation of duties

NIST SP 800-172 · 1 control

  • 3.1.1e Dual Authorization for Sensitive System Operations

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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