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LanG -- A Governance-Aware Agentic AI Platform for Unified Security Operations

Anes Abdennebi , Nadjia Kara , Laaziz Lahlou , Hakima Ould-Slimane
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classification 💻 cs.CR cs.AI
keywords agentic AIsecurity operationsLLM rule generationgovernance guardrailsintrusion detectionSOC platformopen-source securityattack reconstruction
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LanG combines multiple AI security components into one open-source platform that enforces governance policies.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces LanG to address alert fatigue and fragmented tools in security operations by integrating a correlation engine for unified incident records, an agentic orchestrator with human checkpoints, an LLM-based rule generator for IDS signatures, a three-phase attack reconstructor, and a governance layer. Benchmarks show 87% F1 on event correlation, 96.2% rule acceptance, 87.5% kill-chain accuracy, and 98.1% F1 on guardrails with reported zero false positives, plus strong results on anomaly detection at low latency. A comparison against eight other SOC platforms claims LanG is the only open-source option that satisfies multiple industrial capabilities while supporting local multi-tenant deployment. Sympathetic readers would see value in a single tool that adds AI assistance without losing policy control.

Core claim

LanG is an open-source governance-aware agentic AI platform for unified security operations that delivers a Unified Incident Context Record with correlation engine, a LangGraph-based orchestrator with human-in-the-loop checkpoints, a fine-tuned LLM rule generator for Snort/Suricata/YARA rules, a three-phase attack reconstructor using Louvain detection and Bayesian scoring, and a layered architecture exposing tools via Model Context Protocol under an AI Governance Policy Engine with a two-layer guardrail pipeline, achieving the listed performance metrics and uniquely meeting multiple SOC requirements in one deployable system.

What carries the argument

The layered Governance-MCP-Agentic AI-Security architecture that governs all components through an AI Governance Policy Engine and a two-layer guardrail pipeline of regex plus semantic classifier.

If this is right

  • Generates deployable security rules with 96.2% average acceptance rate across four base models.
  • Correlates cross-source events into unified records at 87% F1 score.
  • Reconstructs attack kill-chains at 87.5% accuracy through community detection and Bayesian hypothesis scoring.
  • Detects anomalies at 99% weighted F1 and threats at 91% weighted F1 with inference around 21 ms.
  • Supports fully local, multi-tenant, role-based deployment for managed security service providers.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The human-in-the-loop design could lower barriers to regulated adoption by keeping oversight on AI actions.
  • If the guardrails prove robust beyond the tested conditions, the platform could serve as a template for governed AI in other operational domains.
  • Open-source availability might enable community testing on diverse network environments to strengthen generalization claims.
  • Fast local inference times open the possibility of embedding the system directly on edge security devices.

Load-bearing premise

The reported accuracy, acceptance, and zero false-positive figures will continue to hold when the system encounters real-world adversarial inputs or previously unseen attack patterns.

What would settle it

Deploy the guardrail pipeline and rule generator against a curated set of adversarial prompts or novel attack traces and measure whether false positives appear or rule acceptance falls substantially below 96%.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.05440 by Anes Abdennebi, Hakima Ould-Slimane, Laaziz Lahlou, Nadjia Kara.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: LanG platform layered architecture. The Security layer provides guardrails that protect the Agentic AI agents, their capabilities are exposed via MCP tools and resources, and all MCP access is governed by the top-level governance policy. Arrows indicate the dependency direction (bottom-up). III. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: SOC Agentic Pipeline: five agent nodes with two [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Governance enforcement architecture of the LanG platform. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: MSSP deployment topology. The central LanG instance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Syntactic validity rate (%) by model and rule format on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation: effect of the RulePostProcessor on syntactic validity rate. Post-processing improves validity by 3.2–5.1 percentage points, with the largest gain on Phi-3-mini. TABLE XIII: Correlation Engine Grouping and Attack Recon￾structor Performance Correlation Reconstructor Scenario Prec. Rec. F1 Chain Bayes. (%) (%) (%) Acc. (%) Score BruteForce 91.0 88.0 89.0 91 0.82 Exfiltration 87.0 84.0 86.0 86 0.78 W… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Guardrail recall per adversarial category: Layer 1 (regex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Reconstruction time vs. number of input events. Phase 2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Simplified attack graph for the brute-force-to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Example attack scenario visualization generated by Phase 3. Nodes are labelled by kill-chain phase (e.g., reconnaissance, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Example of a reconstructed cyberattack scenario after being flagged then acted against (through a newly generated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Example of agentic AI flow for anomaly & threat detection, log analysis, and new detection rule generation of a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Example of a threat path where the threat detection agent communicates with the rule generation agent, then awaiting [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Example of a the generated rules using one of the finetuned models (Qwen3-1.7-base). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Example of a complete agentic pipeline flow of a detected threat and generated then deployed its respective detection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_15.png] view at source ↗
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Modern Security Operations Centers struggle with alert fatigue, fragmented tooling, and limited cross-source event correlation. Challenges that current Security Information Event Management and Extended Detection and Response systems only partially address through fragmented tools. This paper presents the LLM-assisted network Governance (LanG), an open-source, governance-aware agentic AI platform for unified security operations contributing: (i) a Unified Incident Context Record with a correlation engine (F1 = 87%), (ii) an Agentic AI Orchestrator on LangGraph with human-in-the-loop checkpoints, (iii) an LLM-based Rule Generator finetuned on four base models producing deployable Snort 2/3, Suricata, and YARA rules (average acceptance rate 96.2%), (iv) a Three-Phase Attack Reconstructor combining Louvain community detection, LLM-driven hypothesis generation, and Bayesian scoring (87.5% kill-chain accuracy), and (v) a layered Governance-MCP-Agentic AI-Security architecture where all tools are exposed via the Model Context Protocol, governed by an AI Governance Policy Engine with a two-layer guardrail pipeline (regex + Llama Prompt Guard 2 semantic classifier, achieving 98.1% F1 score with experimental zero false positives). Designed for Managed Security Service Providers, the platform supports multi-tenant isolation, role-based access, and fully local deployment. Finetuned anomaly and threat detectors achieve weighted F1 scores of 99.0% and 91.0%, respectively, in intrusion-detection benchmarks, running inferences in $\approx$21 ms with a machine-side mean time to detect of 1.58 s, and the rule generator exceeds 91% deployability on live IDS engines. A systematic comparison against eight SOC platforms confirms that LanG uniquely satisfies multiple industrial capabilities all in one open-source tool, while enforcing selected AI governance policies.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents LanG, an open-source governance-aware agentic AI platform for unified security operations addressing SOC challenges like alert fatigue and fragmented tooling. It contributes (i) a Unified Incident Context Record with correlation engine (F1=87%), (ii) an Agentic AI Orchestrator on LangGraph with human-in-the-loop checkpoints, (iii) an LLM-based Rule Generator fine-tuned on four base models yielding 96.2% average acceptance rate for Snort/Suricata/YARA rules, (iv) a Three-Phase Attack Reconstructor using Louvain detection, LLM hypothesis generation, and Bayesian scoring (87.5% kill-chain accuracy), and (v) a layered Governance-MCP-Agentic AI-Security architecture with an AI Governance Policy Engine featuring a two-layer guardrail (regex + Llama Prompt Guard 2) achieving 98.1% F1 with experimental zero false positives. Additional elements include fine-tuned anomaly (99.0% F1) and threat (91.0% F1) detectors with ~21 ms inference and 1.58 s mean time to detect, plus a systematic comparison against eight SOC platforms asserting that LanG uniquely combines multiple industrial capabilities in one open-source tool while enforcing selected AI governance policies. The platform supports multi-tenant isolation, role-based access, and fully local deployment.

Significance. If the reported empirical results are validated with full experimental details, the work would offer a meaningful contribution as an integrated open-source platform that unifies correlation, orchestration, rule generation, attack reconstruction, and governance enforcement for SOC/MSSP use. The open-source availability, emphasis on local deployment, human-in-the-loop design, and explicit comparison to existing platforms are positive aspects that could aid adoption and reproducibility. The governance layer via the two-layer guardrail and Model Context Protocol exposure represents a timely focus on AI safety in security tooling. However, the significance depends heavily on whether the performance claims generalize beyond the (unspecified) test conditions.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract: The manuscript reports multiple quantitative results (correlation F1=87%, rule acceptance 96.2%, attack reconstruction 87.5%, guardrail F1=98.1% with zero false positives, anomaly/threat detector F1 scores of 99.0%/91.0%) but supplies no information on datasets, baselines, evaluation protocols, statistical tests, or ablation studies. This omission is load-bearing for the central claims of effectiveness and uniqueness, as it is impossible to determine whether the numbers support the stated conclusions or generalize to real SOC conditions.
  2. Abstract (governance component): The two-layer guardrail (regex + Llama Prompt Guard 2) is presented as achieving 98.1% F1 'with experimental zero false positives' and is central to the claim that LanG 'uniquely' enforces AI governance policies relative to the eight compared platforms. No details are given on the test inputs (e.g., whether they include adversarial or novel prompts relevant to rule generation and agent actions), so the zero-FP result does not demonstrably transfer to the conditions that matter for the uniqueness assertion.
  3. Abstract (comparison): The assertion that 'a systematic comparison against eight SOC platforms confirms that LanG uniquely satisfies multiple industrial capabilities all in one open-source tool' is load-bearing for the paper's primary contribution claim, yet no information is provided on the identity of the eight platforms, the precise capabilities evaluated, or the evaluation methodology. Without this, the uniqueness conclusion cannot be assessed.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The phrase 'finetuned on four base models' is used without naming the models or describing the fine-tuning data, hyperparameters, or evaluation split, which reduces clarity even though it is not central to the main claims.
  2. Abstract: The inference time ('≈21 ms') and mean time to detect (1.58 s) are reported without specifying hardware, batch size, or test conditions, which is a minor presentation issue for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review. The comments correctly identify areas where the abstract could better support the quantitative claims and contribution statements. We have revised the manuscript to address these points by expanding the abstract and adding supporting details in the main text.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: The manuscript reports multiple quantitative results (correlation F1=87%, rule acceptance 96.2%, attack reconstruction 87.5%, guardrail F1=98.1% with zero false positives, anomaly/threat detector F1 scores of 99.0%/91.0%) but supplies no information on datasets, baselines, evaluation protocols, statistical tests, or ablation studies. This omission is load-bearing for the central claims of effectiveness and uniqueness, as it is impossible to determine whether the numbers support the stated conclusions or generalize to real SOC conditions.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including high-level experimental context. In the revised manuscript we have expanded the abstract to reference the primary datasets and benchmarks used for each component, the evaluation protocols (including hold-out testing and cross-validation), and the baselines. We have also added a concise summary of ablation studies and statistical significance testing in the experimental sections to better substantiate the reported metrics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Abstract (governance component): The two-layer guardrail (regex + Llama Prompt Guard 2) is presented as achieving 98.1% F1 'with experimental zero false positives' and is central to the claim that LanG 'uniquely' enforces AI governance policies relative to the eight compared platforms. No details are given on the test inputs (e.g., whether they include adversarial or novel prompts relevant to rule generation and agent actions), so the zero-FP result does not demonstrably transfer to the conditions that matter for the uniqueness assertion.

    Authors: We accept that additional information on the guardrail test inputs is required to support the zero false-positive claim under relevant conditions. The revised abstract now notes that the evaluation included adversarial and domain-specific prompts. We have also added a paragraph in the governance section describing the test set composition, including the proportion of adversarial and novel prompts related to rule generation and agent actions, along with the exact evaluation protocol. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Abstract (comparison): The assertion that 'a systematic comparison against eight SOC platforms confirms that LanG uniquely satisfies multiple industrial capabilities all in one open-source tool' is load-bearing for the paper's primary contribution claim, yet no information is provided on the identity of the eight platforms, the precise capabilities evaluated, or the evaluation methodology. Without this, the uniqueness conclusion cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract's uniqueness claim would be clearer with a brief indication of the comparison scope. The detailed comparison, including platform identities, evaluated capabilities, and methodology, appears in Section 6. In the revision we have updated the abstract to name the platforms and summarize the capability categories and evaluation approach, while retaining the full analysis in the main text. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: all reported results are direct empirical measurements with no derivations or self-referential definitions.

full rationale

The paper presents an agentic AI platform and reports performance via benchmark F1 scores, acceptance rates, accuracy figures, and a platform comparison. These are framed as direct experimental outcomes from specific test conditions rather than quantities derived from other fitted parameters or prior self-citations. No equations, ansatzes, uniqueness theorems, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims rest on empirical validation and open-source implementation details, remaining independent of any circular reduction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The abstract contains no mathematical derivations, free parameters, or postulated entities. All contributions are engineering components and reported performance figures.

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