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destruction of data

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The complete physical destruction of data or of the data carrier containing them.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

Classifications

Entity Type

Process85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
data destruction
possessive
destruction of data's