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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 a 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.


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.


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

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.


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)

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.


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.

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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