ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
You are retiring a cloud-hosted solid-state drive (SSD) array that stored controlled unclassified information (CUI). According to NIST SP 800-88 Rev.1, which disposal action provides purge-level sanitization while still allowing the provider to reuse the hardware?
Execute a single overwrite pass of all logical blocks with pseudorandom data.
Submit the SSDs for mechanical shredding into 2 mm particles.
Expose the SSDs to a Type I degausser with a 7,000-gauss magnetic field.
Invoke the drive's built-in cryptographic erase function to delete and re-generate its encryption key.
NIST SP 800-88 identifies three sanitization levels: Clear, Purge, and Destroy. For SSD-based media, cryptographic erase-destroying the media's encryption key so that remaining ciphertext is indecipherable-is specifically listed as a Purge method. It removes data to the same assurance level as physical block erasure but preserves the drive for future use. A single overwrite pass is only a Clear operation and is unreliable on SSDs because wear-leveling may leave residual data. Mechanical shredding renders the drive unrecoverable, meeting the Destroy level, but does not permit reuse. Degaussing is ineffective on flash technology because SSDs do not store data magnetically and therefore cannot be sanitized by a magnetic field. Consequently, invoking the drive's built-in cryptographic erase function is the best choice.
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