Review, Approve, Track, Document, and Verify
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Review, approve, track, document, and verify media sanitization and disposal actions.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizations review and approve media to be sanitized to ensure compliance with records retention policies. Tracking and documenting actions include listing personnel who reviewed and approved sanitization and disposal actions, types of media sanitized, files stored on the media, sanitization methods used, date and time of the sanitization actions, personnel who performed the sanitization, verification actions taken and personnel who performed the verification, and the disposal actions taken. Organizations verify that the sanitization of the media was effective prior to disposal.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for MP-6(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.
Assessment
Assessment Objectives
- media sanitization and disposal actions are reviewed;
- media sanitization and disposal actions are approved;
- media sanitization and disposal actions are tracked;
- media sanitization and disposal actions are documented;
- media sanitization and disposal actions are verified.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: System media protection policy; procedures addressing media sanitization and disposal; records retention and disposition policy; records retention and disposition procedures; media sanitization and disposal records; review records for media sanitization and disposal actions; approvals for media sanitization and disposal actions; tracking records; verification records; system audit records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system media sanitization and disposal responsibilities; organizational personnel with records retention and disposition responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system/network administrators].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for media sanitization; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing media sanitization; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing verification of media sanitization].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for MP-6(1). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.
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Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- System media protection policy
- records retention and disposition policy
- system security plan
- privacy plan
Testing
- Organizational processes for media sanitization
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing media sanitization
- mechanisms supporting and/or implementing verification of media sanitization
Other Records
- procedures addressing media sanitization and disposal
- records retention and disposition procedures
- media sanitization and disposal records
- review records for media sanitization and disposal actions
- approvals for media sanitization and disposal actions
- tracking records
- verification records
- system audit records
- other relevant documents or records