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media

Definitions:

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration (LSI) memory chips, printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within an information system.
Sources:
FIPS 200 under MEDIA

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-scale integration (LSI) memory chips, printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within an information system.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 from FIPS 200

  Plural of medium.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 under Media

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration memory chips, and printouts (but excluding display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within a system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2 from FIPS 200

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, large-scale integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within an information system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-128 under Media from FIPS 200

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, large-scale integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but excluding display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-128 from FIPS 200

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including, but not limited to, magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration (LSI) memory chips, and printouts (but not including display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within a system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-172 from FIPS 200
NIST SP 800-172A from FIPS 200
NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 from FIPS 200

  Physical devices or writing surfaces including magnetic tapes, optical disks, magnetic disks, Large-Scale Integration memory chips, and printouts (but excluding display media) onto which information is recorded, stored, or printed within a system.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 from FIPS 200