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CC6.5Disposal and destruction of information assetsSOC 2Logical and Physical Access Controls

Official Requirement

The entity discontinues logical and physical protections over physical assets only after the ability to read or recover data and software from those assets has been diminished and is no longer required to meet the entity's objectives.

Source: AICPA Trust Services Criteria (2017), incorporating COSO principles

In Plain English

When a hard drive, laptop, or server is retired, the data on it must be unrecoverable before you repurpose or dispose of it. Cloud snapshots and database backups have the same requirement when you delete them. This criterion also applies to customer data, when a customer ends their contract, their data must be handled according to your data retention and disposal policy.

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The Trust Services Criteria referenced in this tool are published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and incorporate principles from the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Criteria descriptions are reproduced for reference purposes. All implementation guidance, evidence recommendations, and control language are original work by Truvo Cyber. ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 are standards published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Framework and standard names are the property of their respective owners. This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by AICPA, COSO, or ISO.

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On-premises implementation and evidence

Media sanitization and disposal procedure

Implementation steps

  1. Wipe decommissioned drives with NIST 800-88-compliant methods: Secure Erase for SSDs, DoD 7-pass wipe for HDDs, or physical destruction for drives that cannot be sanitized
  2. Maintain a media destruction log: asset tag, drive serial number, destruction method, date, person who performed it
  3. For drives being physically destroyed, use a certified e-waste vendor who provides a destruction certificate
  4. Laptop retirement must include drive wipe verification, BitLocker encryption alone does not satisfy disposal if keys were escrowed

Tools / systems

Evidence artifacts

Evidence frequency: Per decommission event; log maintained continuously; auditors will sample from destruction log