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.
Organisation securely disposes of personal information when it is no longer needed for the identified purposes.
PMF-URD.3 · Secure Disposal →The applicant has implemented a policy for the secure disposal of personal information.
CBPR-PR-31 · Secure disposal policy →Dispose of data on storage media using industry accepted methods that leave it unrecoverable by forensic means.
CCM-DSP-02 · Secure Disposal →Verify that sensitive data and licensed software are removed or securely overwritten before disposal or re-use.
iso-27001-2022::7.14 · Secure disposal or re-use of equipment →Requires items of equipment containing storage media to be verified before disposal or re-use, confirming that sensitive data and licensed software have been removed or securely overwritten.
iso-27002-2022::7.14 · Secure disposal or re-use of equipment →Requirement defined in ISO 27018:2019, clause 11.2.7 (Secure disposal or re-use of equipment). See licensed source for normative text.
iso-27018-2019::11.2.7 · Secure disposal or re-use of equipment →Questions people ask about secure disposal
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