3.5: Securely Dispose of Data

Securely dispose of data as outlined in the enterprise’s data management process. Ensure the disposal process and method are commensurate with the data sensitivity.

Asset Type

Security Function

Implementation Groups

Data

Protect

1, 2, 3

Dependencies

  • Safeguard 3.1: Establish and Maintain a Data Management Process

  • Safeguard 3.2: Establish and Maintain a Data Inventory

Inputs

  1. GV16: Data disposal requirement portion of data management process

  2. GV11: Portion of data management process addressing data sensitivity

  3. GV17: Count of Sensitive data types

  4. GV12: Sensitive Data Inventory

Operations

  1. For each sensitive data type covered in GV17

    1. Identify and enumerate each type has a disposal method and process as defined by GV16 (M2)

    2. Identify and enumerate each type that does not have a disposal method and process as defined by :code:`GV16`(M3)

  2. For each item in GV12`determine wether they data complies with the disposal requirements outlined in :code:`GV17

    1. Enumerate data that does not comply with disposal requirements (M4)

    2. Enumerate data that complies with disposal requirements (M5)

Measures

  • M1 = GV17

  • M2 = Count of sensitive data types with an outlined disposal method

  • M3 = Count of sensitive data types witouth an outlined disposal method

  • M4 = Count of data in inventory that does not comply with disposal requirement

  • M5 = Count of data in inventory that complies with disposal requirement

  • M6 = Count of items in GV12

Metrics

  • If GV16 is 0, this safeguard receives a failing score. The other metrics don’t apply.

Completeness of disposal process

Metric
The percentage of data sensitivity types that contain a disposal method and process

Calculation
M2 / M1

Compliance to disposal process

Metric
The percentage of compliance to the data disposal process

Calculation
M5 / M6