What should an auditor do when conducting a periodic audit on media retention?

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Check electronic storage media to ensure records are not retained past their destruction date.

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Ensure authorized personnel are in possession of paper copies containing Personally Identifiable Information....

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Check that hard disks containing backup data that are still within a retention cycle are being destroyed....

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Ensure that data shared with outside organizations is no longer on a retention schedule.

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