Alibaba's SecRespond Benchmark: No Frontier LLM Can Fully Handle Post-Compromise Security
Alibaba-NLP · hf · 2026-07-30
Alibaba's research team introduced SecRespond, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate LLM agents on real-world post-compromise incident response workflows.
While existing cybersecurity benchmarks focus on pre-compromise scenarios, SecRespond requires agents to analyze forensic disk snapshots, alerts, and vulnerability scans from compromised hosts to generate forensic reports and remediation plans.
- Scope: Spans 10 cyber ranges constructed from distinct compromised cloud hosts, covering 4 entry-point types, 21 ATT&CK techniques, and 5 operating systems.
- Results: Evaluating 23 frontier LLMs revealed that while agents can address alert-exposed issues, they struggle to proactively investigate disks for silent intrusions and formulate comprehensive remediation plans.
- Conclusion: No model achieved complete detection and remediation on any single range, highlighting a fundamental bottleneck in building agents for real-world security operations.
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