Cisco Extended Data Retention for XDR
Enhance your Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities with an additional 365 days of data retention, providing deeper security insights and compliance assurance.
- Extended Visibility: Access security event data for up to a full year, enabling comprehensive forensic analysis and incident response.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory and internal policy requirements for data retention with extended storage periods.
- Improved Threat Hunting: Conduct more thorough investigations and identify subtle, long-term threat patterns with a larger historical data set.
- Operational Continuity: Ensure uninterrupted security monitoring and analysis by maintaining a complete historical record of security events.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Security Suite license extends the data retention period for your Cisco XDR platform to 365 days. It unlocks the capability to store and analyze security event data for an entire year, significantly enhancing your ability to investigate threats, perform forensic analysis, and maintain compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.
This solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who rely on their Cisco security infrastructure to protect their own business operations. It integrates directly with your existing Cisco XDR deployment, ensuring a unified and extended view of your security posture without requiring additional hardware.
- 365-Day Data Retention: Store security telemetry for a full year, enabling deeper historical analysis.
- Enhanced Forensic Capabilities: Conduct comprehensive investigations with extended access to event logs.
- Regulatory Compliance: Support data retention mandates for various industry regulations.
- Proactive Threat Hunting: Identify advanced persistent threats and subtle anomalies over longer periods.
- Simplified Security Operations: Maintain a continuous security data stream for consistent monitoring and response.
Empower your security team with extended data visibility to proactively defend your business against evolving cyber threats.
What This Enables
Enable Extended Security Investigations
Enable teams to conduct in-depth forensic investigations by providing access to a full year of security event data. Streamline the process of identifying root causes and understanding the full scope of security incidents.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises servers, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized infrastructure
Meet Regulatory Data Retention Mandates
Automate compliance with industry-specific data retention regulations that require logs to be stored for extended periods. Ensure your organization avoids penalties and maintains a strong compliance posture.
regulated industries, compliance-driven operations, audit-ready environments, data governance frameworks
Improve Long-Term Threat Detection
Streamline the identification of advanced persistent threats and subtle anomalies by analyzing security data over a 365-day period. Proactively hunt for threats that may have evaded initial detection.
proactive security monitoring, threat intelligence integration, security operations centers, continuous security assessment
Key Features
365-Day Data Retention
Provides an entire year of security event data for comprehensive analysis and compliance.
Cisco XDR Platform Integration
Seamlessly extends the capabilities of your existing Cisco XDR deployment without requiring new infrastructure.
Enhanced Forensic Capabilities
Allows for deeper investigation into security incidents by offering a longer historical data set.
Regulatory Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet stringent data retention requirements mandated by various industry regulations.
Proactive Threat Hunting
Enables security teams to identify sophisticated and long-term threats that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions are subject to strict data retention regulations like SOX and PCI DSS, requiring extensive logs for audit and compliance purposes.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must comply with HIPAA, which mandates specific data retention periods for patient records and security logs to ensure data integrity and privacy.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have long-standing data retention policies for security and operational logs to meet legal discovery requirements and ensure accountability.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and must adhere to retention policies for case files and communication logs for legal and ethical reasons.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco XDR?
Cisco XDR (Extended Detection and Response) is a security platform that integrates and correlates data from multiple security tools to provide a unified view of threats. It helps security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats more effectively.
What does 'Data Retention Extension' mean?
This license extends the default period for which your Cisco XDR platform stores security event data. Instead of a shorter retention period, you can store data for 365 days.
Who is this license for?
This license is for businesses using Cisco XDR that need to retain security data for longer durations, typically for compliance reasons or to enable more thorough threat investigations.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.