IT Media Sanitization (ITSP.40.006)

The ITSP.40.006 v2 IT Media Sanitization publication contains guidance for IT Security for Practitioners and other IT security authorities to help reduce the risk of exploitation of residual data on IT equipment with electronic memory and/or data storage media. This guidance applies to data at all levels of sensitivity. The media to be sanitized may be a discrete item such as a storage device, or it may be part of a network or mobile data processing device.

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Last Updated April 17, 2026, 18:49 (UTC)
Created April 17, 2026, 18:49 (UTC)
criticality_level ["employers", "government", "nongovernmental_organizations"]
geographic_scope []
open_canada_collection publication
open_canada_date_published 2017-07-01 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords {"fr": ["nettoyage des supports"], "en": ["media sanitization"]}
open_canada_subject ["information_and_communications", "science_and_technology"]
sensitivity_level unrestricted
title_fr Nettoyage des supports de TI (ITSP.40.006)
update_frequency not_planned