After discovering that a single accounts payable clerk was able to create, approve, and pay several fictitious vendor invoices without detection, the information security manager is tasked with recommending an internal control to prevent a recurrence. Which practice would BEST address this weakness while also improving the organization's overall internal control environment?
Enforce a two-week mandatory vacation policy for each accounts payable clerk every year.
Require multifactor authentication for all accounts payable users accessing the invoicing application.
Deploy full-disk encryption on every workstation used by the finance department.
Implement segregation of duties so that invoice creation, approval, and payment are carried out by different employees.
Separating invoice creation, approval, and payment among different individuals implements segregation of duties, creating checks and balances that make it far more difficult for any one employee to commit and conceal fraudulent transactions. Multifactor authentication, mandatory vacations, or full-disk encryption may add security or detection value, but none directly remove the root cause-unilateral control over the entire process.
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