What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on MP.L2-3.8.3 Media Disposal?

Sanitization and destruction procedure with approved methods; Sanitization or destruction certificates and records; Evidence the method matches the media type.

What is the most common gap auditors find on MP.L2-3.8.3?

Reformatting treated as sanitization

CMMC 2.0 · Media Protection

`MP.L2-3.8.3` Media Disposal

Sanitize or destroy system media containing CUI before the media is disposed of or released for reuse.

Source: CMMC 2.0, MP.L2-3.8.3. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CMMC 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Data governance / DLP tooling

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Sanitization or destruction certificates and records · Data governance / DLP tooling
Evidence the method matches the media type · Data governance / DLP tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Sanitization and destruction procedure with approved methods · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Reformatting treated as sanitization
Disposal handled by a third party without certificates
Reuse within the organization skips sanitization

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

Build my evidence sheet

MP.L2-3.8.2 Media Access · MP.L2-3.8.4 Media Markings