Asset Disposal & Decommissioning

Question 1

What is Sanitization?

Answer 1

refers to the thorough process of making data inaccessible and irretrievable from a storage medium using traditional forensic techniques.

Question 2

What is Overwritting?

Answer 2

Sanitization technique

Overwriting data multiple times replacing the existing data on a storage device with a random series of information. Obscures the data if anybody tries to recover it using forensic techniques

Question 3

What is Degaussing?

Answer 3

Sanitization technique

Uses a single machine called a degausser which produces a strong magnetic field that can disrupt the magnetic domains on a storage device like a hard disk drive or a tape backup

Question 4

What is Secure Erase

Answer 4

Sanitization Technique

Completely deleting data from a storage device while ensuring it cant be recovered using traditional recovery tools

Question 5

What is Certification?

Answer 5

act of proof that the data or hardware has been securely disposed of.

Question 6

Explain destruction of data

Answer 6

ensuring that the physical device itself is beyond recovery or reuse