Open Security Benchmark: Towards Autonomous Enterprise Cyber Defense
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Abstract (arXiv)
Enterprises are moving toward autonomous cyber defense: agentic AI that builds situational awareness of an organization's security state and reasons from it to assessments, decisions, and actions. This rests on a holistic view of the enterprise's security state, the continuous, cross-vendor picture of identities, cloud and infrastructure, data, applications, and their configurations that security posture management assembles. As agents take on this work, what matters is not whether an agent can produce an answer but whether it should be trusted to. The field cannot yet answer this question. Real enterprise environments are private, cross-vendor, and deeply correlated, and none is exposed publicly as a shared, queryable target for evaluating such agents end to end. We call this the environment data gap. We present Open Security Benchmark (OSB), a framework that benchmarks agentic AI on this work. OSB surfaces a curated enterprise environment - a frozen, holistic view of the security state - and evaluates posture investigation across two modalities: text-to-SQL over a relational snapshot and each vendor's native API over a served instance of the same environment. Freezing the environment pins the target state as an immutable snapshot and anchors answers to a closed-form ground truth. OSB is built from five components: a data layer, a task and evaluation-set layer, a multi-dimensional scoring layer, a minimal auditable harness, and a bring-your-own path that serves public comparison and private tenant evaluation from one substrate. We instantiate the framework with two identity-security packs and a family of synthetic-organization environment datasets spanning multiple scales, and chart its extension to further posture subdomains, investigation modalities, and defense stages from assessment toward remediation.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent threats, guardrails and governance, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. First posted on arXiv 29 Jul 2026.
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