A.8.3.2 Disposal of media
A.8.3.2 in ISO 27001:2013 (ISO/IEC 27001:2013). All ISO 27001:2013 controls held. Open ISO 27001:2013 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Disposal of media. Media no longer needed is disposed of securely under formal procedures. As an Annex A reference control it is compared with the controls chosen in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability, included with a reason and an implementation status or excluded with a reason (6.1.3 d). Carried into ISO/IEC 27001:2022 as A.7.10.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
ISO 27001:2022
- A.7.10 Storage media (reviewed pair)
- A.8.10 Information deletion (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A.8 Asset management), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the asset inventory with owners
- the classification and handling rules
- the acceptable-use acknowledgement