ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
A U.S. federal agency is retiring a legacy payroll system that stores moderate-impact PII. Before the Authorizing Official can sign the termination memorandum, which activity should the security team complete during the disposal/decommissioning phase to meet RMF and SDLC requirements?
Reallocate the system's continuous-monitoring budget to the replacement application before shutting down operations.
Verify that every digital and physical storage media associated with the system has been sanitized or destroyed in accordance with NIST SP 800-88.
Document and sign a residual-risk acceptance memo transferring any remaining risk to the system owner.
Delete the system's entry from the agency's FISMA inventory to avoid reporting it in the next cycle.
During the disposal/decommissioning phase, the organization must ensure that any media containing federal information is properly sanitized, purged, or destroyed in accordance with NIST SP 800-88 guidelines. NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2 identifies media sanitization as a mandatory disposal task that must be completed before the Authorizing Official can formally terminate the system's authorization to operate. Simply transferring risk, reallocating budgets, or removing the system from the FISMA inventory can occur only after the assurance has been obtained that no sensitive data remains accessible. Therefore, validating that all information system media have been sanitized or destroyed is the correct and most critical step.
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