Access control

The need-to-know principle grants access only to information that an individual needs to perform his or her task. Different tasks and roles have different information needs and thus different access profiles.

Separation of tasks means that conflicting tasks and responsibilities must be separated in order to reduce the risk of unauthorized or unintentional modification or misuse of the organisation's protected assets.

The organization implements role-based access control with predefined access roles for the various protected assets that entitle access to the associated asset. Strictness of the access roles should reflect the security risks associated with the asset.

The following should be considered to support access management:

• how much information each user needs access to
• how widely the user should be able to edit data (read, write, delete, print, execute)
• whether other applications have access to the data
• whether the data can be segregated within the property so that sensitive data is less exposed

To ensure that authorized users have access to data systems and to prevent unauthorized access, the organization has defined formal processes for:

• User registration and deletion
• Allocation of access rights
• Reassessment of access rights
• Deleting or changing access rights

The implementation of these things must always take place through a defined, formal process.