QuestionQ6

VerifiedData Life Cycle Management

Before they are crushed, an organization’s data-destruction guidelines should require hard drives that contain personal data to undergo which of the following processes?

Explanation

Degaussing sanitizes magnetic hard drives by disrupting their magnetically encoded information before physical destruction. NIST identifies degaussing as a method for purging magnetic media, while destruction is a separate disposal method.

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