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Purple Llama CyberSecEval
Meta’s open-source cyber risk benchmarks and safeguards
Agents and toolsFrontier model safetyRuntime guardrailsOpen source
Purple Llama is Meta’s umbrella project of evals and safeguards. Its CyberSecEval benchmarks measure insecure code, cyberattack helpfulness, code interpreter abuse, prompt injection, spear phishing and autonomous offensive operations, and CyberSecEval 4 (Apr 2025) added a CyberSOC eval built with CrowdStrike. It also includes Llama Guard, Prompt Guard, CodeShield and LlamaFirewall.
Best for: Model builders measuring cyber misuse risk with public benchmarks.
Open source (MIT for evals; Llama licenses for models), maintained by Meta
- – Maps to OWASP
- – Maps to MITRE ATLAS
- – Maps to the EU AI Act
- – SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Worth knowing before you sign
- No tagged GitHub releases; the README describes up to CyberSecEval 3.
- Licensing differs by component (MIT vs Llama community licenses).
Go to Purple Llama CyberSecEval's site
Sources
- GitHub: meta-llama/PurpleLlama
- The Hacker News: LlamaFirewall and CyberSecEval 4
- SecurityWeek: Llama protection tools
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