Setting security for each employee based on their specific role provides the tightest and most personalized security. The trade-off is the increased amount of administration effort when setting up the specific roles to use and the access permitted for each role. Keeping these details up to date can also be time consuming.

You have been brought in as a consultant from Smith Systems Consulting to advise Riordan Manufacturing on what it will take to establish adequate enterprise security policies. You need to prepare a paper that highlights why they should establish separation of duties via role assignment and how this will provide safeguards to protect the data in their information systems.

This paper is about why Riordan should use role assignment to establish separation of duties, so the paper should focus on that, not any of the other elements of the background information. You do not need to give background on Riordan, Smith Systems Consulting or anyone else. Focus on why separation of duties using role assignment is a good thing. Everything else is outside the scope of the paper.