This guide explains how to read AI Advisory results and incident summaries. For an overview of what AI Advisory is and which plans include it, see AI Advisory: second-opinion malware reviews.
AI Advisory verdicts
When PowerSEC's scanner flags a file and the site administrator has turned on automatic AI review, AI Advisory (on Pro Protection, Pro + Backup Plus and Agency) can review selected findings and return an advisory verdict:
- likely malicious — strong indicators; review recommended
- suspicious — some indicators; review recommended
- likely false positive — appears benign in context; review before dismissing
- inconclusive — not enough context to decide
- needs human review — flagged for a person to look at
These verdicts are advisory only. They never change your security score, malware counts, threat level, or the scanner's result, and they never remove, quarantine, or suppress anything. The scanner remains the source of truth. You'll find AI Advisory results on a site's Findings → AI Advisory tab.
Incident summaries
For an active incident, PowerSEC can generate a summary — what happened, a suggested order to respond in, and recommended actions — so you're not piecing together raw alerts under pressure. Scanner findings in a summary are candidates for review, not confirmed infections: check a file before you remove it.
Privacy and limits
- AI Advisory reviews selected excerpts from selected findings — not your whole site and not every file. Each excerpt is at most 16,000 characters.
- Passwords, keys, tokens and email addresses are redacted before anything is sent to Google Gemini, which does the review through PowerSEC Central.
- Automatic review is off until a site administrator turns it on under PowerSEC → Central Connection in WordPress.
- Prompts, excerpts and API keys are not shown in the product.
Which plans include AI Advisory
AI Advisory is included with Pro Protection, Pro + Backup Plus, and Agency. Free and Backup Only do not include AI Advisory and can upgrade to a protection plan to unlock it.