Regulatory Requirements for Equipment Disposal
Question
A system owner has requested support from data owners to evaluate options for the disposal of equipment containing sensitive data.
Regulatory requirements state the data must be rendered unrecoverable via logical means or physically destroyed.
Which of the following factors is the regulation intended to address?
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The regulation in question is intended to address the factor of data remanence.
Data remanence refers to the residual physical or digital representation of data that remains even after the data has been deleted, erased, or otherwise removed from a device or storage media. This residual data can potentially be recovered and reconstructed using specialized tools or techniques, posing a security risk to sensitive or confidential information.
To mitigate this risk, regulatory requirements mandate that data must be rendered unrecoverable through either logical means or physical destruction. Logical means may involve overwriting the data with random or meaningless characters, using secure deletion software, or applying cryptographic techniques. Physical destruction may involve shredding, pulverizing, or melting the storage media to render it completely unusable.
The other answer options are not relevant to this scenario. Sovereignty refers to the authority of a government or entity over a particular territory or domain and is not related to data disposal. E-waste refers to electronic waste and the responsible disposal of electronic equipment to prevent environmental harm, but does not address data security concerns. Deduplication is a data compression technique used to eliminate duplicate copies of data, but it is not relevant to the secure disposal of sensitive data.
