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Introduction

The NATO Advanced Data Storage Interface (NADSI) working group has identified the Sanitization of non-volatile solid state, high density magnetic disks, and RAID memory elements as an important issue in the ISR user community. Command infrastructure and functional capability to perform the necessary operations need to be included in any system that is required to sanitize data storage elements. Incorporating this capability during the design effort is the most effective approach. Sanitization times for these technologies, which incorporate large storage capacities, can be significant and efficient means of sanitization should be addressed during design. This AEDP provides the sanitization guidelines for FLASH Solid State Recorder (SSR) memory, RAID, and hard disk data storage systems.

Applicability

This document and the included procedures are applicable to Removable Memory Modules (RMM) which incorporate FLASH Solid State Recorder memory, and RAID/magnetic Disk data storage system that are used to store unexploited Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data. ISR data has a high time value. This data is significantly different from general Computer Information System (CIS) data and the characteristics of ISR data have been considered in defining the included sanitization procedures. Sanitization is the technical basis for eliminating data from media in order to declassify it. In addition, NATO INFOSEC declassification directives and instructions apply to all classified data storage elements in the NATO environment and should be reviewed and applied as appropriate.