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Suggested SCA Authorities

An SCA is not required to have full administrative authority. You can tailor your use of SCAs to conform to the requirements of your organization. Consider the following when planning your use of SCAs:

• Additional SCAs may be required to perform routine maintenance. This may be true especially if you have centralized security maintenance and have heavy maintenance requirements.
• SCAs can be created with auditing capabilities to allow the auditing staff to monitor the implementation and maintenance of CA Top Secret.
• Special purpose SCAs and LSCAs can be created with reduced authority to handle specific environmental requirements. For example, some organizations create an SCA or LSCA with the authority to only suspend and unsuspend users. This ACID is assigned to an operator along with appropriate procedures for unsuspending ACIDs which have been accidentally suspended.

As indicated, administrative authorities can be selectively assigned. For a full discussion of available authorities, see the Command Functions guide.