ISO 27001 7.14 Secure Disposal or Re-use of Equipment Requirement:
"Items of equipment containing storage media shall be verified to ensure that any sensitive data and licensed software has been removed or securely overwritten prior to disposal or re-use."[1]
ISO 27001 7.14 Secure Disposal or Re-use of Equipment Requirement Explanation:
To protect the confidentiality of the organization's information all digital media should be sanitized before it is reused within the organization or securely destroyed before disposal. Examples include wiping a computer's hard drive before it is assigned to a new user and shredding hard drives instead simply wiping and throwing them away.
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