Trust
A pentest report is only as valuable as it is trustworthy. CarbonMantis seals a cryptographic record of exactly what ran during every scan — and gives you an open tool to verify it yourself, offline, against a key we can't secretly swap. Even we can't rewrite or backdate it.
The problem
When you hire pentest-as-a-service, you hand a vendor deep access to your systems — then rely on its output for remediation, board reporting, security questionnaires, and compliance evidence. That raises two questions most vendors can't answer:
"Trust us, it's tamper-proof" is not an answer an auditor accepts. Proof is.
What every scan produces
Both are anchored to WORM (write-once, read-many) immutable storage. We anchor compact cryptographic checkpoints — signed digests, not your raw scan data — so the evidence is small and privacy-preserving.
A signed, monotonic record of what actually executed — the tools that ran, the targets, the scan units, the timestamps. The proof that the work you paid for happened, exactly as described.
A tamper-evident record of every security-sensitive operation — credential handling, session brokering, lease redemption — so sensitive actions are accountable, not invisible.
How you prove it
You do not have to trust CarbonMantis's servers, database, or staff to trust the evidence. The proof is independent and offline.
ECDSA P-256 signatures cover a canonical record binding your organization, a sequence number, the log root hash, the previous checkpoint, the signing-key identity, and the issue time. Change a single bit and the signature no longer verifies.
The public key reaches you through a channel independent of the API that serves your data, and the verifier trusts a pinned keyset with no trust-on-first-use. A compromised API cannot hand you a forged record with a matching forged key — you already hold the real one.
An open tool checks the signature (authentic, unaltered), the key validity window and revocation (no retired/compromised keys), and the hash chain + monotonic sequence (nothing inserted, removed, reordered, or rolled back). No live dependency on our infrastructure.
The record is anchored to write-once, immutable storage with its own independent key and hash chain — proving non-equivocation: we cannot have shown a different history to a different party, and cannot have truncated or rolled the log back server-side.
Net: signature (integrity + authenticity) + chain & monotonicity (completeness + ordering) + key validity (freshness) + WORM anchor (non-equivocation) — all verifiableindependently, offline, against a key we cannot swap.
Why it's different
Most vendors ask you to trust their word and their dashboard. CarbonMantis gives you evidence you verify yourself, with an open tool, offline, against a key we cannot swap.
The design removes our own ability to silently rewrite or backdate your evidence — a rare thing to be able to say when we’re the ones holding the keys to your systems.
If the platform itself is compromised, the sealed evidence survives tamper-evidently — an attacker cannot cover their tracks without it being detectable.
Immutable, timestamped, signed retention is exactly the shape of evidence that frameworks asking for tamper-evident record-keeping expect.
For compliance & GRC
Because the record is signed, immutable, and independently verifiable, it's built for the moments where "trust us" isn't enough:
Findings you can reproduce. Evidence you can verify. A record no one can rewrite.
Under the hood
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