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Standard · NISTNIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Guidelines for Media SanitizationNIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 is the reference most organisations name when they say a drive was securely erased. This page sets out what the final September 2025 text contains and how a forensic laboratory, which both erases media and examines erased media, should use it.

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Standards update · Data sanitizationWhat NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 ChangedNIST published the final NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 in September 2025 and withdrew the 2014 revision. The new edition drops the media-by-media technique tables and asks organisations to run a sanitization programme instead. Here is what moved, what stayed and what it means for disposing of IT assets in India.