Media Sanitization
What is Media Sanitization?
The process of rendering data on electronic media unrecoverable through methods such as clearing, purging, or destroying the storage media.
Terms that appear alongside media sanitization
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as media sanitization. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 5 shared controls
- fips 3 shared controls
- encryption 3 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- fedramp 2 shared controls
- data residency 2 shared controls
- tls 2 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern media sanitization
What the standards actually require on media sanitization
Requirements naming media sanitization across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Review, approve, track, document, and verify media sanitization and disposal actions.
NIST800-MP-6(1) · MP-6(1) Media Sanitization | Review, Approve, Track, Document, and Verify →Review, approve, track, document, and verify media sanitization and disposal actions.
nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::MP-6(1) · MP-6(1) Media Sanitization | Review, Approve, Track, Document, and Verify →Sanitize media prior to disposal, release, or reuse using FedRAMP-defined methods (NIST SP 800-88).
MP-6 · Media Sanitization →Assess that the organization sanitizes or destroys system media containing CUI before disposal or release for reuse.
A.03.08.03 · Media Sanitization Assessment →The organisation sanitizes defined media before disposal, release outside organisational control or reuse using defined techniques and procedures, with mechanisms whose strength and integrity match the security category or classification of the information.
canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::MP-06 · MP-06 Media sanitization →Sanitise or destroy digital media before disposal, release from agency control or reuse by overwriting at least three times or degaussing, destroy inoperable digital media, dispose of non-digital media securely when no longer needed for investigative or securi...
fbi-cjis-security-policy::MP-6 · MP-6 Media Sanitization →Questions people ask about media sanitization
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