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Limitations and data retention Policy

In certain circumstances, there are ESET Cloud Office Security scanning limitations. A file is not scanned and will appear in Scan logs as Not scanned if the following occurs:

The file size is over 200 MB

The scan takes longer than 2 minutes and times out

The archive file has a nesting level of 10 or more (usually, a file known as an archive bomb or zip bomb)

The archive file is password-protected

The file is damaged

Quarantine limits (when released from quarantine):

15 MB for one email attachment

150 MB for the whole email message, including attachments

Data retention policy:

Entity

Retention period

Comment

Quarantined objects

30 days

Objects older than 30 days will be removed permanently.

Detections

90 days

Records older than 90 days will be removed permanently.

Scan logs records

90 days

Records older than 90 days will be removed permanently.

Scan logs records with Clean scan result

3 days

If you have a policy that uses Log all objects, Clean scan results older than 3 days will be removed permanently.

ESET Cloud Office Security database backup

90 days

Backups older than 90 days will be permanently deleted.

Audit logs

90 days

Records older than 90 days will be removed permanently.

Application Insights logs

90 days

Records older than 90 days will be removed permanently.

 

Tenant removed from ESET Cloud Office Security console

When you remove a tenant from the ESET Cloud Office Security console, the retention period for tenant data is 30 days (quarantine, Scan logs, and Statistics are deleted after 30 days). If you add the tenant again within 30 days, all the data will be restored. Other objects (tenants, users, groups, sites, reports, policies) are permanently deleted after 90 days.

ESET Cloud Office Security deactivated in ESET Business Account or ESET MSP Administrator

If you deactivate ESET Cloud Office Security in ESET Business Account or ESET MSP Administrator, this process also removes tenants from ESET Cloud Office Security. ESET Cloud Office Security removal is permanent, and deleted data cannot be restored.

Antispam scan

ESET Cloud Office Security scans email messages stored in mailboxes for spam. For this reason, ESET Cloud Office Security cannot prevent a user from sending a spam message to an external email address. In a similarly unlikely scenario, if Office 365 user credentials get stolen, the credentials may be used by a spammer to send bulk spam messages (outbound email traffic).