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Understanding the Dashboard

The dashboard is designed for triage: what is the current security posture, and what should you deal with next?

Getting Started Free / Pro Updated August 9, 2026

Dashboard panels

The Free dashboard summarizes scan risk, hardening posture, last scan state, and Recommended Actions.

It also links directly into Scan and Hardening so operators can move from summary to action quickly.

  • Scan risk score
  • Hardening posture score
  • Last scan status
  • Recommended Actions

How to interpret the scores

Risk score reflects the most recently completed scan, not guesswork from partial data.

Hardening posture reflects currently enabled hardening controls and excludes advisory-only items such as `DISALLOW_FILE_MODS`.

Recommended Actions collapse to an explicit all-clear state when there is nothing urgent to do, instead of leaving the area visually empty.

What changes with Pro

When Pro is active, you also gain access to history, trends, reports, scheduled scans, and scheduled email reporting through the Pro pages.

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