National Industrial Security Program
Chapters and selected sections of this edition are: DoD 5220.22-M is sometimes cited as a standard for sanitization to counter data remanence. As of the June 2007 edition of the DSS C&SM, overwriting is no longer acceptable for sanitization of magnetic media; only degaussing or physical destruction is acceptable. Unrelated to NISP or NISPOM, NIST also publishes a Data Sanitization standard, including methods to do so. .The National Industrial Security Program, or NISP, is the nominal authority (in the United States) for managing the needs of private industry to access classified information. The NISP was established in 1993 by Executive Order 12829. A major component of the NISP is the NISP Operating Manual, also called NISPOM, or DoD 5220.22-M., the current NISPOM edition is dated 28 Feb 2006. The NISPOM actually covers the entire field of government-industrial security, of which data sanitization is a very small part (about two paragraphs in a 141 page document).
