A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that a company's current data disposal procedures could result in data remanence. The company uses only SSDs. Which of the following would be the most secure way to dispose of the SSDs given the CISO's concern?
Correct Answer: E
For SSDs,incinerationis considered the most secure method of physical destruction, ensuring no data remanence. SSDs store data differently compared to traditional spinning disks, making degaussing ineffective.
Overwriting and formatting may not reliably erase all storage cells due to wear-leveling technologies.
Shredding may work if the granularity is extremely fine, but incineration guarantees complete destruction beyond recovery.
Reference:CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005, Domain 2.0: Apply secure media sanitization methods appropriate for device types such as SSDs.