Zero of the 11 large language models tested earned a passing score on the cyber defense benchmark.

Publisher	Simbian
Report	The Cyber Defense Benchmark: Why Every Frontier LLM Failed
Published	28 April 2026
Topics	LLMs, AI Models, Benchmarking

Published by Simbian in The Cyber Defense Benchmark: Why Every Frontier LLM Failed, 28 April 2026. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.

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