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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 182 of 611

A drive will be reissued to another employee in the same department. Which sanitisation category is normally sufficient?

  1. No sanitisation is required for internal reuse
  2. Purge
  3. Destroy
  4. Clear
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Answer: D. Clear

Clear defeats keyboard-level recovery using ordinary read and write commands, which suits reuse inside the organisation.

Source: NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 (NIST) — SP 800-88 Rev. 1 § 2.5 Types of Sanitization

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