Media

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Physical devices or writing surfaces, including but not limited to magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within a system. [7]

NIST SP 800-172r3

Senses

3 more senses beyond the canonical

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Physical objects that store data, such as paper, hard disk drives, tapes, and compact disks (CDs).

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Physical devices or writing surfaces including but not limited to magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large Scale Integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within an information system.

NIST SP 800-171r3glossary

Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within a system. [7]

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Medias
possessive: Media's
pluralpossessive: Medias'

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