During a security assessment you are asked to verify that the company's finance system is protected against malicious insiders. Management wants a control that prevents any one employee from creating, approving, and releasing a wire transfer alone, thereby forcing collusion for fraud to succeed. Which administrative measure most directly meets this objective?
Separation of duties divides a critical business process into distinct tasks that must be performed by different people. Because no single insider can execute every step, an attacker would need to recruit at least one accomplice, significantly raising the difficulty of fraudulent transfers. Job rotation swaps roles over time but does not split a single transaction, least-privilege limits system permissions but still lets one authorized user complete the workflow, and security awareness training raises knowledge but does not add a procedural gate.
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