<div>Government agencies should comply with the Federal Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) Information Security Manual (ISM) which outlines sanitisation requirements, which are dependant on the classification of the device/media.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A government agency shouldn't really be giving assets away without having the sanitisation processes written up and agreed to prior.</div><div><br></div><div>Highly sensitive assets may need to be destroyed (probably just the flash storage, not the whole switch; if possible) not just cleaned/wiped. <br>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dsd.gov.au/publications/Information_Security_Manual_2012_Controls.pdf">http://www.dsd.gov.au/publications/Information_Security_Manual_2012_Controls.pdf</a>
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