Dashboard#
What the Dashboard Is#
The Dashboard is the landing page of SilentBolt. It provides a real-time, at-a-glance view of your organization's security posture across all onboarded domains. Rather than requiring you to navigate through individual scans, the Dashboard aggregates the most critical data points into a single view.
Why It Exists#
Security teams need a daily command center — a single page that answers: Are we getting better, worse, or staying the same? The Dashboard surfaces trends, highlights urgent issues, and enables fast decisions about where to focus effort next.
Who Uses It#
- Security analysts — to check for new critical findings each morning and prioritize daily work.
- Team leads — to monitor overall posture, track trend direction, and identify targets that need attention.
- Executives (via screen share / demos) — to understand organizational risk at a glance.
- MSSP operators — to quickly check client health across tenants.
Main Sections#
Risk Snapshot#
A summary card showing the current aggregate risk posture.
- Total findings broken down by severity: critical, high, medium, low, info.
- Open findings count — how many issues remain untriaged or unresolved.
- Risk trend indicator — up/down/stable compared to the previous period.
Recent Scans#
A table or list of the most recent scan executions.
- Domain name, scan status, completion time, finding counts.
- Direct links to scan detail pages.
- Highlights scans that failed or produced critical findings.
Findings Trends#
A time-series chart showing how findings (by severity) have changed over recent scans.
- X-axis: time or scan sequence.
- Y-axis: finding counts.
- Separate lines or stacked areas for each severity level.
- Useful for tracking remediation progress and detecting regressions.
Top Exposed Targets#
A ranked list of domains with the highest risk exposure.
- Domain name, total findings, critical/high counts.
- Links to the domain's scan history and findings.
- Helps prioritize which targets need immediate attention.
Critical Alerts#
A notification-style feed showing the most recent high-priority events.
- New critical or high findings discovered.
- Scans that failed unexpectedly.
- Findings that have regressed (previously resolved, now reappeared).
- Accepted risk expirations approaching.
Activity Timeline#
A chronological feed of platform activity for the current company.
- Scans started, completed, or failed.
- Findings created or escalated.
- Governance status changes.
- Orchestration sessions launched.
- Integration events dispatched.
How to Use the Dashboard#
Daily Review (Analyst)#
- Check the Critical Alerts section for anything requiring immediate action.
- Review the Risk Snapshot to understand current exposure.
- Open any Recent Scans that completed overnight and review their findings.
- Click through Top Exposed Targets to prioritize deep-dive triage.
Weekly Review (Team Lead)#
- Examine the Findings Trends chart to see if the overall trend is improving.
- Identify any targets in Top Exposed Targets that have been persistently high-risk.
- Review the Activity Timeline for team member activity — governance transitions, reports exported.
- Decide whether to schedule additional scans or escalate specific findings.
Common Actions from the Dashboard#
| Action | Where |
|---|---|
| Start a new scan | Click a domain in Top Exposed Targets → Scan |
| View finding details | Click a finding in Critical Alerts |
| Open a recent scan result | Click a scan row in Recent Scans |
| Navigate to full findings list | Use top navigation → Findings |
Best Practices#
- Check the Dashboard at the start of every workday. It's designed to surface what changed overnight.
- Use Findings Trends to measure remediation velocity. If the trend is flat or rising, your team may be under-resourced or under-triaging.
- Pay attention to regressions in Critical Alerts. A resolved finding that reappears signals a deployment or infrastructure change that reverted a fix.
- Use Top Exposed Targets to drive sprint planning. Focus scans and remediation on the domains with the highest exposure.
Edge Cases and Warnings#
- The Dashboard data is only as current as your most recent scans. If scans haven't run recently, the snapshot may be stale.
- If no scans have been completed yet, the Dashboard will appear empty with guidance to onboard your first target.
- Findings Trends require at least two completed scans for the same domain to show meaningful data.
- The Activity Timeline is scoped to your company. You will not see activity from other tenants.