Echo Assistant: Privacy-First and Context-Driven

Echo understands where you are in Dradis, what you're working on, and delivers the right suggestion at the right moment.

Context-aware suggestions that run on your own infrastructure

Echo understands Dradis finding fields, project data, and your team's standards so it can deliver the right suggestion at the right moment.

Unlike cloud-based solutions, Echo is designed with privacy, flexibility and extensibility in mind, just like Dradis:

  • Private: your sensitive assessment data never leaves your perimeter.
  • Flexible: bring your own LLM, switch between models, use the right tool for the job, and create a context-aware library of prompts.
  • On premise: for peace of mind, or compliance, regulatory, or clearance purposes.

No external APIs. No cloud processing. No third-party data handling. No training of someone else's models with your data. Your sensitive findings never leave your network.

Diagram showing Ollama and Dradis running locally within organization network

Lean on Echo to reduce reporting time

Echo generates contextual suggestions directly in Dradis - summarize raw scanner output, rewrite tester notes into executive language, or enhance brief remediation advice with detailed steps.

Echo understands your finding's severity, affected systems, and context.

Review the suggestion, edit as needed, and save. All without leaving your workflow or writing custom code.

Before and after comparison of finding text enhanced by Echo

Define prompts that match your workflow and keep control with human review

Echo adapts to your writing standards and client expectations. Create context-driven prompts to:

  • Summarize findings for executives.
  • Deepen technical detail for developers.
  • Extract key metadata from long write-ups.

Echo speeds up reporting, but you stay in control:

  • Generate context-aware suggestions for each finding.
  • Review, edit, and approve before saving.
  • Accelerate reporting while improving consistency.

Combined with Dradis built-in Quality Assurance workflow to always deliver consistent results.

Screenshot of creating and saving custom Echo prompts

How Echo Enhances Your Workflow

Streamline Finding Summaries

Turn raw scanner output or tester notes into polished executive summaries in seconds. Echo understands context and delivers relevant suggestions.

Enhance Remediation Advice

Expand brief remediation steps into detailed, client-ready guidance. Echo contextualizes your findings and fills in the details.

Rewrite for Different Audiences

Generate technical versions for development teams and executive summaries for leadership - all from the same finding data.

Extract Key Details

Have Echo pull out CVSS scores, affected systems, or business impact from verbose notes, speeding up metadata entry.

Enforce Team Standards

Configure Echo prompts to use your approved severity levels, remediation language, and terminology - ensuring consistency across all reports.

Build Faster Without Lock-In

Choose your processing model via Ollama and switch anytime. Echo works with any compatible model - you own your context engine, data, and workflow.

How Echo Maintains Context

Echo is built on understanding context - where you are in your workflow, what you're working on, and what matters most in that moment.

Unlike generic tools, Echo knows:

  • Finding context: Severity, affected systems, business impact, and remediation timeline.
  • Project context: Methodology, client standards, and framework requirements.
  • Team context: Your defined prompts, writing standards, and approval workflows.
  • Workflow context: Where you are in report writing, what you've already documented, and what still needs polish.

Context-driven assistance means Echo delivers the right suggestion at the right moment - not generic output that requires heavy editing.

Dradis Echo FAQs

How fast is local processing?

Local processing via Ollama is typically fast for finding summaries and rewrites. Latency depends on your server hardware and the processing model you choose.


What processing models work with Echo?

Echo works with any model available on Ollama, including Llama 2, Mistral, Neural Chat, and others. You choose the model that best fits your performance and quality needs. Switch models anytime without changing your Dradis setup.


Should I trust Echo's suggestions?

Echo is a productivity tool that speeds up writing and improves consistency - not a decision-maker. All suggestions require human review before saving. Echo delivers suggestions that you refine and approve.


Can I create my own custom prompts?

Yes. You define and manage custom prompts in Dradis Echo tailored to your team's standards, audience, and use cases. Save and reuse prompts across your entire team. Echo adapts to your workflow and context.

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