To provide an information processing apparatus, a responsibility determination method, a responsibility determination program, and a recording medium that can facilitate the definition of responsibilities for a security policy.

The information processing apparatus, which executes a requested operation according to an approval/denial determination based on definition information defining rules of operation approval/denial determination by operation classifications depending on the combination of the classification of a resource to be operated and the classification of an entity operating the resource, has a responsibility information holding means for holding information on responsibilities depending on the operation classifications required to be executed when the operations of the classifications are executed, and a responsibility content determination means for determining the contents of responsibilities corresponding to the requested operation according to the responsibility information holding means.