Data Remanence - Standards

Standards

Australia

  • DSD ISM 2010, Australian Government Information Security Manual, Nov 2010

Canada

  • RCMP B2-002, IT Media Overwrite and Secure Erase Products, May 2009
  • Communications Security Establishment Clearing and Declassifying Electronic Data Storage Devices, July 2006

New Zealand

  • GCSB NZISM 2010, New Zealand Information Security Manual, Dec 2010
  • NZSIS PSM 2009, Protective Security Manual

United States

  • NIST Special Publication 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization, September 2006
  • DoD 5220.22-M, National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), February 2006
    • Current editions no longer contain any references to specific sanitization methods. Standards for sanitization are left up to the Cognizant Security Authority.
    • Although the NISPOM text itself never described any specific methods for sanitization, past editions (1995 and 1997) did contain explicit sanitization methods within the Defense Security Service (DSS) Clearing and Sanitization Matrix inserted after Section 8-306. The DSS still provides this matrix and it continues to specify methods. As of the Nov 2007 edition of the matrix, overwriting is no longer acceptable for sanitization of magnetic media. Only degaussing (with an NSA approved degausser) or physical destruction is acceptable.
  • Army AR380-19, Information Systems Security, February 1998
  • Air Force AFSSI 8580, Remanence Security, 17 November 2008 (formerly AFSSI 5020)
  • Navy NAVSO P5239-26, Remanence Security, September 1993

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