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 deterministic scanner flags a selected file, AI Advisory (on eligible protection plans) can review the specific evidence 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 verdict, and they never auto-remove, auto-quarantine, or auto-suppress anything. The deterministic scanner remains the source of truth. You'll find AI Advisory results on a site's Findings → AI Advisory card.
Incident summaries
For an active incident, PowerSEC can generate a clear summary — what happened, the safest order to respond, and the recommended actions — so you're not piecing together raw alerts under pressure.
Privacy & limits
- AI Advisory is budget-capped and privacy-bounded: it reviews selected excerpts from selected findings — not your whole site and not every file.
- Sensitive data (credentials, API keys, emails) is redacted before anything is sent for analysis.
- Raw prompts, excerpts, API keys, and chain-of-thought are not shown in the product UI.
Which plans include AI Advisory
AI Advisory is included with Pro Protection, Pro Backup Plus, and Agency Protected. Free and Backup-only plans do not include AI Advisory and can upgrade to a protection plan to unlock it.