A technician is decommissioning a workstation that contains Pll The HDDs cannot be used in another device, and all data must be destroyed. Which of the following actions would BEST fulfill these…

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Options

• APhysically damage the drives.
• BLeave the drives in the workstation since it will be decommissioned
• CTake a picture of the drives individually and their serial numbers
• DSend the drive to a certified third-party vendor for destruction.
• EPerform a ow level format before removal
• FSet a complex hard drive password.

• A
  75% (12)
• B
  13% (2)
• E
  6% (1)
• F
  6% (1)

Explanation

Since the HDDs cannot be reused and all PII must be destroyed, the goal is complete, irrecoverable data destruction. Physically damaging the drives (A) - such as shredding, crushing, or degaussing - makes data forensically unrecoverable. Sending drives to a certified third-party destruction vendor (D) ensures professional, documented destruction that meets compliance requirements. Leaving drives in a decommissioned workstation (B) does not destroy data. A photo (C) documents nothing about data destruction. A low-level format (E) is recoverable with forensic tools and does not meet 'all data must be destroyed' requirements. A hard drive password (F) does not destroy data.

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