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MP-06(03) Nondestructive Techniques

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
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unchanged MP High baseline part of MP-6

Title

Nondestructive Techniques

Control

Apply nondestructive sanitization techniques to portable storage devices prior to connecting such devices to the system under the following circumstances: [Assignment: circumstances].

Discussion

Portable storage devices include external or removable hard disk drives (e.g., solid state, magnetic), optical discs, magnetic or optical tapes, flash memory devices, flash memory cards, and other external or removable disks. Portable storage devices can be obtained from untrustworthy sources and contain malicious code that can be inserted into or transferred to organizational systems through USB ports or other entry portals. While scanning storage devices is recommended, sanitization provides additional assurance that such devices are free of malicious code. Organizations consider nondestructive sanitization of portable storage devices when the devices are purchased from manufacturers or vendors prior to initial use or when organizations cannot maintain a positive chain of custody for the devices.

Parameters

mp-06.03_odp: circumstances

Assessment objective

MP-06(03) non-destructive sanitization techniques are applied to portable storage devices prior to connecting such devices to the system under [Assignment: circumstances].

STIG rules that implement this control 4

Apple iOS/iPadOS 26 V1R3

Apple iOS/iPadOS 27 V1R1