A company has a policy to repurpose its storage devices internally before considering disposal. When preparing storage devices that were used for sensitive projects for repurposing within a less critical department, which measure should be employed to minimize the risk of data exposure?
Perform a standard antivirus scan to ensure the absence of malware.
Conduct a secure erasure conforming to a stipulated industry standard for data sanitization.
Reformat the drives using the quick format option to prepare for immediate reuse.
Degauss the drives to disrupt the magnetic field and render the data unreadable.