Standard
Records Retention and Destruction Standard
This standard establishes controls, retention schedules, destruction methods, and documentation requirements for managing information and records throughout their lifecycle. It ensures that records, both physical and digital, are retained, secured, and disposed of in compliance with legal, regulatory, contractual, and operational requirements, including those governing privacy, AI governance, supply-chain trade compliance (BASC), and data protection.
- Type
- Standard
- Version
- 1.8.0
- Date
- 2026-10-15
- Owner
- Chief Information Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Governance
- Review frequency
- Annual or as required by regulatory or framework changes
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Governance and accountability
- 4. Records classification
- 5. Records retention schedule
- 6. Secure storage and access
- 7. Retention hold and litigation freeze
- 8. Secure destruction
- 9. AI dataset and model record retention
- 10. Sector-specific retention overlays
- 11. Monitoring and compliance
- 12. Framework alignment
Frameworks it maps to
- ISO 15489-1:2016
- ISO/IEC 27002:2022 §5.33, §8.10
- ISO/IEC 27701:2025
- COBIT 2019 APO14.09, DSS01
- CSA CCM v4.1 DSP-16
- CSA CCM v4.1 DSP-02
- ISO/IEC 27040:2024 §10.6.7
- NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 §4.6
- ISO/IEC 42001:2023 §7.5.3
- EU AI Act Annex IV
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