Preface
This document helps customers with data security concerns to sanitize or
remove memory devices from the Tektronix AFG2000 Series Arbitrary Function
Generators.
All of these products have data storage (memory) devices. Some models have
data output devices (USB ports). These instructions tell how to clear or sanitize
the memory devices and disable the data output devices. The instructions also tell
how to declassify an instrument that is not functioning.
Reference
The procedures in this document are written to meet the requirements speci
fi
ed in:
NISPOM, DoD 5220.22–M, Chapter 8
ISFO Process Manual for Certi
fi
cation & Accreditation of Classi
fi
ed Systems
under NISPOM
Products
The following Tektronix arbitrary function generator models are covered by this
document:
AFG2021
AFG2021-SC
AFG2021-BR
Related documents
You can read more about your instrument in the following documents. These are
available online at www.tektronix.com/downloads.
AFG2000 Series Arbitrary Function Generator Service Manual
AFG2021 Arbitrary Function Generator Quick Start User Manual
AFG2021-SC and AFG2021-BR Arbitrary Function Generators Quick Start
User Manual
Terms
The following terms may be used in this document:
Clear.
This removes data on media/memory before reusing it in a secured
area. All reusable memory is cleared to deny access to previously stored
information by standard means of access.
Erase.
This is equivalent to clear.
Instrument declassi
fi
cation.
A term that refers to procedures that must be
undertaken before an instrument can be removed from a secure environment.
Declassi
fi
cation procedures include memory sanitization and memory
removal, and sometimes both.
AFG2000 Series Declassi
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cation and Security Instructions
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