Following sanitisation, destruction or declassification, a formal administrative decision is made to release media, or its waste, into the public domain.
Topic
Disposal of media
Applicable to
all
History
Priority
must
Dec 2021
Following sanitisation, destruction or declassification, a formal administrative decision is made to release media, or its waste, into the public domain.
Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and security controls throughout the publication. This included:
• A review from the Using the Information Security Manual chapter through to the Guidelines for Media chapter.
• Security controls suitable for all audiences have been identified with the ‘All’ applicability marking while additional security controls suitable for just government audiences have been identified with the O, P, S and TS applicability markings.
• Security controls suitable for specific classifications have been amended to include their classification(s) in the wording of the security controls to reduce the reliance on applicability markings to confer suitability.
• Tables in security controls have been converted into prose to allow for inclusion in the SSP annex template and the XML list of security controls.
• The use of ‘official’ and ‘highly classified’ terminology has been replaced with specific classifications to remove ambiguity.
• Security controls relating to high assurance ICT equipment have had their applicability narrowed to ‘S, TS’ reflecting that they are intended for the protection of SECRET and TOP SECRET systems and data.
Apr 2021
Following sanitisation, destruction or declassification, a formal administrative decision (in consultation with information owners) is made to handle media, or its waste, as ‘publicly releasable’ before it is released into the public domain.
Security control 0375 was amended to note that formal administrative decisions to release media or its waste into the public domain are done in consultation with information owners.
Mar 2021
Following sanitisation, destruction or declassification, a formal administrative decision is made to handle media, or its waste, as ‘publicly releasable’ before it is released into the public domain.
2015
Agencies must declassify all media prior to disposing of it into the public domain.
2010
Agencies must declassify all media prior to disposing of it into the public domain.
2008
Agencies must de-classify all classified media, including faulty media, to an unclassified level prior to disposal.