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Open Security Benchmark: Towards Autonomous Enterprise Cyber Defense

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.

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Cross-Vendor Sola ISPM Benchmark: Evaluating Agentic AI for Federated Identity Security Reasoning

The rapid proliferation of multi-cloud and SaaS platforms has transformed Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) into a fundamentally cross-vendor challenge: critical misconfigurations and privilege escalation paths increasingly span multiple identity providers, infrastructure layers, and authentication systems never designed to interoperate. Existing evaluations focus on isolated single-platform environments and provide no means to assess whether an AI agent can reason across these fragmented boundaries. To address this gap, we introduce the Cross-Vendor Sola ISPM Benchmark, a production-grade benchmark of 50 data-grounded tasks requiring multi-hop entity resolution and cross-system correlation across eight integrated enterprise platforms including AWS, Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. We also contribute an evaluation framework measuring not only final answer correctness but also evidentiary grounding, structural join fidelity, retrieval quality, and SQL equivalence. We evaluate the Sola AI Agent across five context configurations - from no injected metadata to full schema, graph, and retrieval context - using three frontier LLMs. Results show that structured relational context improves answer correctness by approximately 34% relatively and reduces exploration queries by approximately 70% across all tested models, with the largest gains driven by cross-vendor graph topology. Our findings indicate that frontier LLMs possess substantial latent security reasoning capability, but reliable cross-vendor identity analysis is fundamentally constrained by the availability of explicit relational context for entity resolution and evidentiary grounding. Under full context, the best configuration achieves 78% answer correctness while reducing complete failure to 4%.

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AI Native Asset Intelligence

Modern security environments generate fragmented signals across cloud resources, identities, configurations, and third-party security tools. Although AI-native security assistants improve access to this data, they remain largely reactive: users must ask the right questions and interpret disconnected findings. This does not scale in enterprise environments, where signal importance depends on exposure, exploitability, dependencies, and business context. Repeated AI queries may therefore produce unstable prioritization without a structured basis for comparing assets. This paper introduces AI-native asset intelligence, a framework that transforms heterogeneous security data into a structured intelligence layer for consistent, contextual, and proactive asset-level reasoning. The framework combines a modeling layer, representing assets, identities, relationships, controls, attack vectors, and blast-radius patterns, with a scoring layer that converts fragmented signals into a normalized measure of asset importance. The scoring system separates intrinsic exposure, based on misconfigurations and attack-vector evidence, from contextual importance, based on anomaly, blast radius, business criticality, and data criticality. AI contextualization refines severity and business/data classifications, while deterministic aggregation preserves consistency. We evaluate the scoring system on a production snapshot with 131,625 resources across 15 vendors and 178 asset types. Sensitivity analyses and ablations show that severity mappings control finding sensitivity, AI severity adjustment refines prioritization, attack-vector scoring responds to rare exploitability evidence, and contextual modulation selectively modifies exposed resources based on business or data importance. The results support AI-native asset intelligence as a foundation for stable prioritization and proactive security-posture reasoning.

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Sola-Visibility-ISPM: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Identity Security Posture Management Visibility

Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) is a core challenge for modern enterprises operating across cloud and SaaS environments. Answering basic ISPM visibility questions, such as understanding identity inventory and configuration hygiene, requires interpreting complex identity data, motivating growing interest in agentic AI systems. Despite this interest, there is currently no standardized way to evaluate how well such systems perform ISPM visibility tasks on real enterprise data. We introduce the Sola Visibility ISPM Benchmark, the first benchmark designed to evaluate agentic AI systems on foundational ISPM visibility tasks using a live, production-grade identity environment spanning AWS, Okta, and Google Workspace. The benchmark focuses on identity inventory and hygiene questions and is accompanied by the Sola AI Agent, a tool-using agent that translates natural-language queries into executable data exploration steps and produces verifiable, evidence-backed answers. Across 77 benchmark questions, the agent achieves strong overall performance, with an expert accuracy of 0.84 and a strict success rate of 0.77. Performance is highest on AWS hygiene tasks, where expert accuracy reaches 0.94, while results on Google Workspace and Okta hygiene tasks are more moderate, yet competitive. Overall, this work provides a practical and reproducible benchmark for evaluating agentic AI systems in identity security and establishes a foundation for future ISPM benchmarks covering more advanced identity analysis and governance tasks.

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