Procedure
Media Handling and Transport Procedure
To protect information held on physical and digital media from unauthorized disclosure, loss, or tampering during storage, internal movement, external transfer, and disposal. This procedure implements the media controls required by the Data Classification and Handling Standard and the Records Retention and Destruction Standard, ensuring that the method of media protection is always proportionate to the sensitivity classification of the information it contains.
- Type
- Procedure
- Version
- 1.10.1
- Date
- 2026-10-23
- Owner
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Operations
- Review frequency
- Annual and upon material platform or regulatory change
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- 1. Purpose and scope
- 2. Governance
- 3. Media classification
- 4. Secure transport of physical media
- 5. Transfer of digital data
- 6. Media storage
- 7. Media sanitization and destruction
- 8. Certificate of destruction
- 9. Surplus and disposal
- 10. Metrics
- 11. Framework alignment
Frameworks it maps to
Related documents
- Data Classification and Handling Standardsecurity
- Encryption and Key Management Policysecurity
- Records Retention and Destruction Standardgovernance
- Physical Security of IT Infrastructure Standardoperations
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