A developer at a software company has access to write code in the development environment and also has administrative access to promote that code directly to the production environment. Which specific IT general control (ITGC) principle is violated?

Answer options:

Logical Access Security

Segregation of Duties (SoD) within Change Management

Backup and Recovery

Physical Security

How to approach this question

Identify the conflict. Writing code + Deploying code = Risk of fraud/error. This is a classic SoD conflict.

Full Answer

B.Segregation of Duties (SoD) within Change Management✓ Correct

Segregation of Duties requires that the person who develops/modifies the code is different from the person who migrates it to production. This prevents a developer from pushing malicious or broken code without oversight.

Common mistakes

Thinking this is just 'Access Security'. It is specifically an SoD issue within the Change Management domain.

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