9.4.7 Electronic media destruction
Electronic media with cardholder data is destroyed when no longer needed for business or legal reasons, rendering cardholder data unrecoverable.
5
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
moderate
to go live
Data governance / DLP tooling
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Certificates of Destruction for drives · Data governance / DLP tooling
- Serialized destruction log per device · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Media sanitization procedure aligned to NIST 800-88 · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Disposal vendor SOC report · Vendor register / contract repository
- Verification testing for sanitized media · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 2 of 5 artefacts that already live in a system (Data governance / DLP tooling); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- No NIST alignment
- Certificates missing
- No verification
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 sheet9.4.6 Hard copy media destruction · 9.5.1 POI device protection