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Audit Log Retention Strategy for Compliance and Forensics

Set practical retention policies for audit logs to balance compliance obligations, cost, and investigation readiness.

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Use cases

  • - Retention policy design
  • - Cost optimization
  • - Investigation readiness

Key benefits

  • - Policy clarity
  • - Improved investigation windows
  • - Predictable storage planning

Retention decisions affect both compliance and cost

Too-short retention increases risk in reviews and incidents, while over-retention can create unnecessary cost and operational complexity.

Separate hot access from long-term evidence

A layered strategy keeps recent logs quickly searchable while preserving older records for audits and legal workflows.

Implement retention as a product decision

HyreLog helps teams define and apply retention policy with stronger consistency across business units and tenants.

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