Topic

Sanitising highly sensitive IT equipment

Applicable to

Secret, Top Secret

History

Priority

should

Jun 2024

IT equipment, including associated media, that is located overseas and has processed, stored or communicated AUSTEO or AGAO data, is sanitised in situ.

References to ICT equipment were amended to IT equipment.

Dec 2021

ICT equipment, including associated media, that is located overseas and has processed, stored or communicated AUSTEO or AGAO data, is sanitised in situ.

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.

Oct 2019

ICT equipment, including associated media, that is located overseas and has processed or stored AUSTEO or AGAO information is sanitised in situ.

Security control 1218 was modified slightly.

Sep 2019

ICT equipment, including associated media, that is located overseas and has processed or stored AUSTEO or AGAO information is sanitised in situ where possible.

2015

ICT equipment and associated media that is located overseas and has processed or storedAUSTEO or AGAO information should be sanitised in situ where possible.