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A records team asks which sanitization method applies to a cloud storage bucket that is being decommissioned. Why is destroy not available to them?

  1. Destroy applies only where the media is magnetic rather than solid state.
  2. Destroy is available only to organisations holding high impact data.
  3. Destroy requires the media to be returned to the manufacturer first.
  4. Destroy suits hard copy and most storage media but not logical or virtual storage, which the tenant cannot physically reach.
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Answer: D. Destroy suits hard copy and most storage media but not logical or virtual storage, which the tenant cannot physically reach.

The destroy method is appropriate for all hard copy and most storage media, with logical and virtual storage the exception, because the underlying physical media is abstracted away.

Source: NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 (NIST) — SP 800-88 Rev. 2 > 3.1.3 Destroy Sanitization Method

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