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NIST 800-171 · Media Protection

Requirement 3.8.3

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 5
POA&M eligibility
Not POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
2 assessment objectives

Official requirement text

Sanitize or destroy system media containing CUI before disposal or release for reuse.

Assessment objectives

Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.

  1. 3.8.3[a]system media containing CUI is sanitized or destroyed before disposal.
  2. 3.8.3[b]system media containing CUI is sanitized before it is released for reuse.

Inside Valontir, this requirement carries a full plain-English guide: what it asks in normal words, what good looks like in a small shop, the evidence an assessor accepts, the common gaps that cost points, and a plain reading of every assessment objective shown above. See it in a demo.