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HardEval: An Execution-Verified Benchmark for AI-Driven Security Hardening and Compliance Remediation

L5 · ResearcherResearcharXiv· 10/16/2026

Provides rigorous evaluation methodology for AI security applications relevant to ML researchers and security professionals

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Researchers introduce HardEval, an execution-verified for evaluating language models on security hardening and compliance remediation tasks.

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Implementing Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) controls remains a demanding operating-system administration task. Each natural-language security requirement must be translated into a precise and persistent configuration change. These changes span Secure Shell (SSH) configuration, authentication policy, audit rules, and kernel parameters. Existing benchmarks do not measure whether a model can perform this task on a live system. Code benchmarks evaluate isolated programs without persi

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