Lakehouse Data Retention Tips for Your Most Pressing Security Use Cases

Effective data retention strategies are crucial for enabling enterprise security operations teams to unlock the full value of their security log data. Long-term retention of security log data can activate valuable long-term security use cases like advanced persistent threat detection, root cause analysis of security incidents, incident response correlation, and more. However, long-term security data retention at scale requires careful planning and the right approach to streamline data ingestion, ensure data availability and accessibility, control costs, and avoid transforming your data lakehouse into a data swamp. This blog explores five lakehouse data retention tips that can enable long-term security use cases and help SecOps teams detect and investigate digital threats against their organization.