During the disposal process for old storage media, a system administrator finds that regulatory requirements mandate that some of the data must be saved for a specific period. This practice is an example of what?
Data retention policies dictate the length of time an organization must keep data due to legal, regulatory, or business reasons. Even when hardware is being disposed of, the data on it may be subject to these retention rules, requiring it to be archived securely rather than immediately destroyed. Sanitization, destruction, and certification are all related to the process of data disposal, but they refer to the removal of data, the physical destruction of media, and the formal verification of disposal, respectively, not the policy of keeping data for a required period.
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