Which of the following should be included in the auditor’s report based on the above findings?

A systems administrator has installed a disk wiping utility on all computers across the organization and configured it to perform a seven-pass wipe and an additional pass to overwrite the disk with zeros. The company has also instituted a policy that requires users to erase files containing sensitive information when they are no longer needed.

To ensure the process provides the intended results, an auditor reviews the following content from a randomly selected decommissioned hard disk:

Which of the following should be included in the auditor’s report based on the above findings?
A . The hard disk contains bad sectors
B . The disk has been degaussed.
C . The data represents part of the disk BIO
E . Sensitive data might still be present on the hard drives.

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Answer: A