Secure Disposal
What is Secure Disposal?
The process of safely destroying or sanitizing assets and media containing sensitive information when they are no longer needed.
Terms that appear alongside secure disposal
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as secure disposal. The number is how many controls name both.
- encryption 6 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
- audit 5 shared controls
- integrity 5 shared controls
- incident response 4 shared controls
- access control 3 shared controls
- post incident review 3 shared controls
- authentication 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern secure disposal
What the standards actually require on secure disposal
Requirements naming secure disposal across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Before equipment containing storage media is disposed of or reused, it is to be checked to confirm that sensitive data and licensed software have been removed or securely overwritten.
iso-27002-2022::7.14 · Secure disposal or re-use of equipment →Secure disposal verification for live instances and backups: no Level 1 requirement. At Levels 2 and 3 the CSP verifies that deleted data is removed from the entire cloud environment, including live instances and snapshots, dormant virtual machines and backups...
mtcs-singapore::12.10 · Secure disposal verification of live instances and backups →Agencies should consider procedures for secure disposal and include them in the RFID Usage Policy, also referring to Chapter 13 on managing, decommissioning and disposing of media and IT equipment.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::11.6.70.C.01 · 11.6.70.C.01 Secure disposal procedures in RFID usage policy →The processor has procedures for the secure disposal or return of personal information when the controller instructs or when the relationship ends.
global-cross-border-privacy-rules-global-cbpr-forum::PRP.7 · Global PRP requirement 7: secure disposal or return on instruction or at termination →Control: hardcopy that is destroyed is destroyed securely, by means such as cross-cut shredding, incineration or pulping.
iso-27018-2019::A.11.7 · Secure disposal of hardcopy materials →Hardcopy that is destroyed is destroyed securely, by means such as cross-cut shredding, incineration or pulping.
iso-iec-27018-2025::A.11.7 · Secure disposal of hardcopy materials →Questions people ask about secure disposal
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