https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/security-awareness/security-awareness-hazards-removable-media/
This article provides an overview of removable media including the risks associated with this technology and how to implement a control policy.
https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/media-sanitization-guidelines
These are the guidelines by the IRS for media sanitization.
https://www.kaseya.com/blog/patch-management-policy/
In this blog, Kaseya will discuss patch management policy best practices and explain how they contribute to a better patching environment for large and small organizations alike.
https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-destruction-software-programs-2626174
This is a blog from lifewire that provides a review of the 40 best free programs for data destruction software programs.
https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-total-protection.html
McAfee Total Protection to reduce the attack surface
https://www.mtu.edu/it/security/policies-procedures-guidelines/media-destruction-procedure.pdf
This is Michigan Technological University’s media destruction procedure to provide an example for media destruction.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/disk-recovery/data-sanitization.html
This is a blog by MiniTool that covers the various data sanitization methods and explains the difference between wipe, erase, format and delete per DOD 5220.22-M method.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/free-hard-drive-data-wipe-software-009.html
This article provides a list of 10 free hard drive wipe software for windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-147B.pdf
This NIST Special Publication is designed to provide guidelines for BIOS protections in server-class systems.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-209.pdf
This NIST Special Publication is designed to provide a comprehensive set of security recommendations for the current landscape of the storage infrastructure.