Component identity
evidencedDrive, storage, and parent-asset relationships preserve what was actually processed.
Trust + governance
Erasure evidence should be tied to the data-bearing component, the method, the result, the operator or system, and any failed or alternate path.
The public methodology for tracking data-bearing components, erasure attempts, failure states, alternate destruction, evidence artifacts, and closure.
Drive, storage, and parent-asset relationships preserve what was actually processed.
The evidence model associates the sanitization or destruction event with its outcome.
Failure remains visible and routes to a controlled alternate path.
Destruction, quarantine, or other authorized closure retains linkage to the original component and failure.
Final evidence is assembled from the underlying event history rather than replacing it.
A chassis-level status is insufficient when removable or multiple data-bearing components exist.
Method, target, result, time, and attribution remain part of the evidence history.
A failed erasure does not disappear when an alternate destruction or remediation path succeeds.
A certificate should reflect the governed disposition of the component, not merely that a workflow was started.
Drive, storage, and parent-asset relationships preserve what was actually processed.
The evidence model associates the sanitization or destruction event with its outcome.
Failure remains visible and routes to a controlled alternate path.
Destruction, quarantine, or other authorized closure retains linkage to the original component and failure.
Final evidence is assembled from the underlying event history rather than replacing it.
These are the kinds of records the operating model must preserve or produce. Availability depends on the product workflow, configured providers, and the event being evidenced.
The method treats data-bearing components as identifiable objects linked to their parent asset.
Erasure evidence capabilityThe failure remains visible while the component follows an authorized alternate path to closure.
Regulated disposition scenarioA certificate is useful only when its underlying identity, method, result, and exception history can be inspected.
Trust RoomThat depends on customer policy, media type, contractual requirements, and applicable law or regulation; this public methodology does not prescribe one universal standard.
Security briefingThat is the difference between a workflow status and a defensible erasure history.