In plain words: A free, open toolkit tests AI-written security detection rules by holding back some rules and comparing new ones against human-written rules using three expert-style scores. Unlike simple match counts, it gives a realistic, multi-angle measure of how good the generated rules really are.
Abstract · Evaluating LLM Generated Detection Rules in Cybersecurity
LLMs are increasingly pervasive in the security environment, with limited measures of their effectiveness, which limits trust and usefulness to security practitioners. Here, we present an open-source evaluation framework and benchmark metrics for evaluating LLM-generated cybersecurity rules. The benchmark employs a holdout set-based methodology to measure the effectiveness of LLM-generated security rules in comparison to a human-generated corpus of rules. It provides three key metrics inspired by the way experts evaluate security rules, offering a realistic, multifaceted evaluation of the effectiveness of an LLM-based security rule generator. This methodology is illustrated using rules from Sublime Security's detection team and those written by Sublime Security's Automated Detection Engineer (ADE), with a thorough analysis of ADE's skills presented in the results section.
Anna Bertiger, Bobby Filar, Aryan Luthra, Stefano Meschiari, Aiden Mitchell, Sam Scholten, Vivek Sharath
arXiv:2509.16749 · cs.CR, cs.AI · submitted Sep 20, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · Preprint of a paper accepted at the Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security (CAMLIS 2025). 11 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables