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Splunk Enterprise Security

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One modern, unified work surface for threat detection, investigation and response

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Security orchestration, automation and response to supercharge your SOC

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Type of data	Retention timeframe*
License Usage Data - Splunk	5 years
Usage Data - Splunk	5 years
Usage Data - Splunk On-Call^**	2 years
Usage Data - Splunk Observability^***	13 months
Support Usage Data - Splunk	5 year
Mobile Device Data	5 years
Support diagnostic files provided by Customers (Splunk On-prem Only)	Up to 180 days

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