Introducing EchoBench: A Human Calibrated Benchmark for Autonomous Pentesting
EchoBench is a human-calibrated evaluation framework developed by NetSPI to standardize the measurement of autonomous penetration testing agents. Current LLM benchmarks often rely on "vanity metrics" that overstate agent efficacy through simplistic objectives and incomplete goals. EchoBench utilizes human-in-the-loop (HITL) scoring rubrics and complex multi-step attack graphs within dedicated testbeds to align agent performance with professional human expert judgment. This calibration identifies the accuracy delta between self-reported agent success and actual operational efficacy, providing a rigorous baseline for deploying autonomous security agents in enterprise environments while reducing false positive rates in vulnerability discovery.