Targeted Attack Validation

Your scanners flag thousands.
We prove what's real.

Targeted Attack Validation ingests findings from Tenable, Rapid7, Qualys, Wiz, Snyk and 150+ other tools, then launches a real attack against your actual environment to confirm what's exploitable. It chains findings into working attack paths and cuts scanner noise down to a short, evidence-backed list of what truly matters.

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SpartanX Targeted Attack Validation dashboard — a completed validation showing confirmed and exploited findings, exploitability and severity distribution, and compliance mapping
Imported vulnerabilities after SpartanX pre-triage — each finding tagged Pre-Triage with an initial Suspected or Likely False Positive status, enriched and ready for analysis
Step 01 · Import & pre-triage

Import the findings. Get a fast first read.

Bring in findings from your scanners and SpartanX runs a pre‑triage before anything else. This isn't the full swarm yet, just a few agents reading patterns to assign an initial status: Suspected or Likely False Positive. Every finding is enriched with context and staged, so the deep analysis that follows never starts from a cold, undifferentiated list.

  • Import findings from your scanners and tools into one place
  • A lightweight pre-triage reads patterns, no exploitation yet
  • Each finding gets an initial Suspected or Likely False Positive status
  • Findings are enriched and staged, ready for the swarm to validate
Launch New Engagement wizard — selecting the Targeted Attack Validation engagement type to confirm whether vulnerabilities are actively exploitable
Step 02 · Choose the flow

One choice turns a backlog into a hit list.

It's the same launch wizard, with a different mission. Instead of a full‑scope campaign, pick Targeted Attack Validation and point the swarm at the findings you already have. Its only job: take theoretical vulnerabilities and prove, with a real attack, which ones can actually be exploited in your environment.

  • Select Targeted Attack Validation as the engagement type
  • Aim the swarm at imported scanner findings instead of broad recon
  • Every run is scoped to one question: is this actually exploitable?
TAV engagement Vulnerabilities tab — imported assets and findings loaded as Unverified, queued for the agent swarm to verify and exploit
Step 03 · Everything starts unverified

Nothing is trusted until the swarm proves it.

Your assets and their findings land in the engagement marked Unverified, claims, not conclusions. From there the agent swarm goes to work on every single one, attempting real exploitation to move each finding from Unverified to Verified, Exploited, or False Positive. A CVSS number means nothing here until an agent backs it with proof.

  • Imported findings begin as Unverified claims, no assumptions made
  • The swarm attempts real exploitation against each one, in parallel
  • Statuses resolve to Verified, Exploited, or False Positive, with evidence
Step 04 · Validation begins

The swarm validates every finding, for real.

This is where it happens. The swarm works through the findings in batches, building a dedicated plan for each one and attempting genuine exploitation against your live environment. It opens with a real recon, fingerprinting the technologies and configurations actually in play (which alone discards the easy, banner-based false positives scanners love to flag), and from there every claimed vulnerability is verified step by step until it's proven exploitable or thrown out.

A running TAV assessment plan — agents performing recon and reasoning step by step, establishing a baseline before attempting exploitation to weed out scanner false positives

A plan per finding

Each vulnerability gets its own validation plan, executed step by step by the swarm.

Proven, not assumed

Agents attempt genuine exploitation, so every verdict is backed by what actually happened, not a CVSS guess.

Recon clears the noise

Step one fingerprints the real stack and discards banner-based false positives before exploitation begins.

Step 05 · Evidence trail

Every verdict leaves a trail.

From the raw scanner output to the final ruling, nothing is hidden. TAV preserves the evidence you started with, records the entire validation process, and logs exactly who changed what, so every status change is defensible.

Raw evidence

We keep the original scanner output untouched. Every finding holds onto its raw evidence, so you never lose sight of where it started, before any AI enrichment or validation.

Raw Evidence panel — the original scanner output captured before any AI enrichment, preserved with the finding
Step 06 · The result

From a wall of findings to the one that matters.

When the swarm finishes, the noise is gone. What started as fourteen unverified findings ends as a single Critical, exploitable risk worth your team's attention, and a stack of low-priority items you no longer have to chase.

Assessment plan completed — the swarm has verified every finding, each plan step marked done
Validation complete

The swarm finishes the job

Every plan step is done. The swarm worked through each finding, reproduced what was real, and recorded the full evidence trail behind every verdict.

Stop triaging. Start proving.

Point Targeted Attack Validation at the scanner findings you're already drowning in, and see how few of them are actually exploitable in your environment.

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