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ISC2 CISSP Practice Question

A financial services organization is decommissioning several servers that were used to process and store highly sensitive customer financial data. The servers contain solid-state drives (SSDs). According to the company's security policy, which is aligned with NIST 800-88, the data on these drives must be made irrecoverable using the method that provides the highest level of assurance. Which of the following procedures BEST meets this requirement?

  • Physically shredding the SSDs to a particle size of 2mm or less

  • Performing a multipass overwrite using a DoD 5220.22-M compliant tool

  • Executing a cryptographic erase (CE) command on the drives

  • Degaussing the SSDs with a certified, high-power degausser

ISC2 CISSP
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