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An IT security technician is finalizing a data destruction workflow for a decommissioned enterprise storage array that contains both magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid-State Drives (SSDs). The technician plans to pass all drives through a powerful magnetic degausser as the primary sanitization step before sending the hardware off-site for physical shredding. Which of the following identifies the most critical security flaw in this proposed workflow?

  1. Degaussing is ineffective for solid-state drives because flash memory does not store data magnetically, leaving the data on the SSDs fully intact.Cevap
  2. B
    Degaussing solid-state drives will render the wear-leveling controller unusable, preventing the issuance of a valid Certificate of Destruction.
  3. C
    Magnetic HDDs must undergo a zero-fill overwrite pass before degaussing to ensure that track alignment remains intact for physical recycling.
  4. D
    Solid-state drives require multi-pass zero-filling instead of physical shredding to achieve purge-level sanitization under NIST guidelines.

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Degaussing is ineffective for solid-state drives because flash memory does not store data magnetically, leaving the data on the SSDs fully intact.
Degaussing exposes media to a powerful magnetic field to eliminate stored magnetic patterns. While highly effective for magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) and magnetic tapes, it does not affect semiconductor flash memory used in solid-state drives (SSDs). Therefore, applying a degausser to SSDs leaves the stored data completely intact.

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1
Analyze the underlying storage technology of the drives in the scenario.
The array contains magnetic HDDs (platter-based magnetic domains) and SSDs (NAND flash semiconductor memory cells).
Sanitization protocols must align with the physical storage mechanism of each media type.
2
Evaluate the operational mechanism of degaussing.
Degaussing exposes drives to high-density magnetic fields to neutralize magnetic alignment.
This method relies on changing the polarity of ferromagnetic material.
3
Identify the impact on non-magnetic solid-state media.
Degaussing has zero effect on electrical charges trapped in NAND flash transistors, leaving all SSD data completely intact.
Semiconductor flash storage does not utilize magnetic domains to record data.

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Selecting media-appropriate data destruction techniques (Degaussing for magnetic media vs. Cryptographic Erase/Purge/Physical Shredding for solid-state media)
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