Editor’s Note: NIST’s Draft Guidelines for Media Sanitization (SP 800-88, Rev. 1) is attached here.
SP 800-88 discussed methods, techniques and best practices for the sanitization of target data on different media types and risk based approaches organizations can apply to establish and maintain a media sanitization program.
Comments are due to NIST by November 30, 2012. Please submit public comments to 800-88r1Comments@nist.gov.
The best method, by far, is when you have your electronic media destroyed at your site. We have all our paper shredded at our site and our electronic media aswell ..Hard drives,back-up tapes,cell phones,thumb drives,cd’s,dvd’s. The truck comes to our loading dock and shreds the media into small pieces, while we watch, the whole process which is recorded on a dvd .