DH-B-09Level 1 · Signal
Disposes of data and devices securely
- Behavior
- Vigilant
- Level 1 · Signal
A vigilant behavior signal from IT service management: the person returned devices on schedule and followed the disposal process for data and media.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- PR.DS-01
- MITRE ATT&CK
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None mapped
The definition, in detail
Definition
A clean return closes the lost-device and leftover-data risks.
Example
A departing engineer returns her laptop and badge on her last day, and the asset record shows the disk wiped the same afternoon.
How it is measured
- Source
- IT service management
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Asset return record
- Risk domain
- Data handling
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Disposes of data and devices securely" per person from IT service management and read it beside the other Data handling signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "disposes of data and devices securely" event is evidence of a protective behavior; a vigilant behavior at any step breaks a sequence. It is one event, and it does not cancel the risky signals the same person carries.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
Continue exploring
"Disposes of data and devices securely" (DH-B-09), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/dh-b-09-disposes-of-data-and-devices-securely
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
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