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How to Review Engagement Results in SpartanX

Review risk scores, confirmed/suspected/false-positive vulns, agent reasoning, audit trails, and kick off remediation via Jira tickets or automated GitHub pull requests.

Written by SpartanX CS

SpartanX provides a rich, multi-layered view of engagement results — from high-level risk scores and vulnerability distributions to detailed agent reasoning trails, exploitation evidence, and remediation workflows. This section walks through how to extract maximum insight from a completed engagement.


The Engagements Dashboard

The Engagements dashboard gives you an at-a-glance overview of all tests — planned, in-progress, and completed. Key data points visible at a glance:

  • Engagement status: pending, in progress, completed, completed with errors, or paused

  • Risk score per engagement

  • Start and end dates, and total duration

  • Vulnerability counts, color-coded by severity (purple = critical, red = high, orange = medium, blue = low)

Engagements can complete with errors when external factors interrupt the test — for example, if a firewall or router at the target becomes temporarily unreachable. The engagement still produces results, but some coverage may be incomplete.
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The Corporate Risk Score

Opening an engagement reveals the Corporate Risk Score — a proprietary metric scored from 0 (lowest risk) to 100 (highest risk). The score factors in:

  • CVSS severity of discovered vulnerabilities

  • Actual exploitability — whether the vulnerability was confirmed, partially exploited, or unverifiable

  • Exploitation complexity — from trivial to multi-step attack chains

  • Business value of affected assets

The dashboard also shows a vulnerability distribution breakdown: confirmed, suspected, likely false positive, and false positive.
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Exploitability Summary

For each engagement, SpartanX reports how many vulnerabilities were:

  • Fully exploited — confirmed with a working proof of concept

  • Partially exploited — vulnerability confirmed but full exploitation stopped by guardrails

  • Verified non-exploitable — present but not exploitable under tested conditions

  • Unverified — insufficient data to confirm or deny exploitability
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Agent Reasoning and Audit Trail

SpartanX provides a detailed view of what the AI agents did during the engagement. The Plan screen shows:

  • Reconnaissance phase — active and passive discovery steps

  • Agent swarm invocations — which specialized modules were activated and why (e.g., if an API is detected, the API analysis swarm is launched; if AWS infrastructure is found, the AWS cloud module activates)

  • Task lists and executed commands with timestamps

  • Decision reasoning — the agent's rationale for each action taken

This audit trail is searchable and browsable, allowing security teams to understand exactly what happened at every step of the engagement.
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Reviewing Individual Vulnerabilities

The vulnerability list within an engagement supports powerful filtering — by severity, exploitability, status, or any combination. For each finding, you can view:

  • Summary and CVSS vector

  • Proof of concept availability and exploitation evidence

  • OWASP and MITRE ATT&CK mappings

  • CWE classification

  • Step-by-step reproduction instructions

  • Source code analysis (if repositories are linked)
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Updating Vulnerability Status

Vulnerability status can be updated to reflect the current remediation state. Any status change requires a written reason, creating an audit trail. Access controls can be configured to restrict who is allowed to change vulnerability status — preventing front-line engineers from inaccurately altering findings. SpartanX serves as the source of truth.
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Knowledge, Secrets, and Collaboration

Within the engagement view:

  • The Knowledge tab shows restrictions and observations added by both users and agents during the engagement.

  • The Secrets tab shows credentials discovered or provided — revealing a credential requires justification and is access-controlled.

  • Comments can be left on individual vulnerabilities, enabling team collaboration and clear ownership tracking.
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What's Next

The next section covers the Vulnerabilities section — your centralized workspace for managing findings across all engagements, including pull request generation, Jira integration, playbook automation, and more.

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