Trust TRU-007

Data retention

Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals. Trust comes from showing how a conclusion was reached, where the boundary sits and what the evidence cannot establish.

Bounded, non-exploitative Authorised external assessment.

Bounded evidence. Explicit responsibility. No hidden inference.

The useful answer

Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals.

Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals. Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals. Trust comes from showing how a conclusion was reached, where the boundary sits and what the evidence cannot establish.

Route-specific context

The decision this page is designed to support

01
Review audience
Security reviewer, privacy reviewer
02
Control objective
Understand retention and deletion boundaries. Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals.
03
Proof boundary
The public site does not send assessed domains, IPs, findings, report content or personal free text to product analytics. Evidence basis: Export reconciliation tests.

A deliberate path

From permission to retained evidence

  1. 01

    Review the governed control described by data retention.

  2. 02

    Trace each statement to its stated evidence basis, owner and review date.

  3. 03

    Carry the published limitation into procurement, assurance or technical interpretation rather than treating silence as approval.

Evidence before assertion

What the product can support

Every governed capability ends with an explicit disposition. Current observations can support a strength or an action; missing, stale or unavailable evidence remains an unknown and cannot become reassurance. The public site does not send assessed domains, IPs, findings, report content or personal free text to product analytics.

Supported capability

Seven PDF publications plus CSV and JSON can be generated from the sealed report projection for entitled reports.

Export reconciliation tests

Direct answers

Questions a careful reader should ask

What does Data retention establish?

Data retention explains the control, evidence and limitation a reviewer should use when evaluating Domain Signals. It establishes only what the governed evidence supports.

What does it not establish?

It does not prove complete organisational security, exploitability, breach likelihood or the absence of unobserved weaknesses.

How can I verify the conclusion?

Use the linked evidence or capability record to inspect source, observation time, target, responsibility and the condition required for closure.