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Challenge

Cross-Border Financial API Security Scanner using AutoGen and Garak

As Singapore and India integrate PayNow-UPI fast payment networks, cybersecurity risks such as prompt injection against AI support tools, schema manipulation, and API vulnerability exploitation become paramount concerns for central banking authorities. In this challenge, you will construct a multi-agent security scanner using AutoGen combined with Garak (the LLM vulnerability scanner). The AutoGen multi-agent team consists of a Red-Team Adversary Agent, a Defensive Inspector Agent, and a Patch Validation Agent. The system automatically launches security probes using Garak against payment gateway API endpoints and verifies whether defensive guardrails withstand zero-day injection attacks.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Build an automated security testing framework for financial APIs using AutoGen multi-agent collaboration and Garak LLM vulnerability scanning.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates ability of the AutoGen/Garak system to uncover injected vulnerabilities and auto-generate valid remediations.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

vulnerability_detection_rate

Must identify 100% of injected seed vulnerabilities.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

remediation_resilience_score

Resilience percentage of patched prompt against second-pass Garak scan • target: 95 • range: 0-100

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Orchestrate a multi-agent conversation loop using AutoGen to simulate adversary-defender scenarios

  • Incorporate Garak security probes to test financial API guardrails against prompt injections

  • Generate structured threat mitigation reports aligned with MAS Cyber Hygiene Guidelines

  • Automate patch validation testing for LLM system prompts

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Dataset of central bank API specifications, vulnerable system prompts, and benchmark prompt injection attacks.

Challenge setup

Evaluates ability of the AutoGen/Garak system to uncover injected vulnerabilities and auto-generate valid remediations.

Challenge input

JSON with system prompt under test and target API schema

AutoGen

Required framework for orchestrating adversary and defender interactions.

Garak

Required tool for LLM vulnerability probes.

Evaluated output

JSON vulnerability report detailing detected breaches and verified remediations

Evaluation checks
  • Must identify 100% of injected seed vulnerabilities.
  • Resilience percentage of patched prompt against second-pass Garak scan • target: 95 • range: 0-100
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: SecLLM-Bench
  • Remediation Resilience Score target: 95
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • AutoGen · Required
  • TPOT · Optional
Reward / Eval
  • Garak · Optional
Safety / Guardrails
  • Garak · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • vulnerability_detection_rate · Weight 1
  • remediation_resilience_score · Weight 1

Metrics

  • remediation_resilience_score · Target 95

Benchmarks

  • SecLLM-Bench
  • security

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON with system prompt under test and target API schema

    Output: JSON vulnerability report detailing detected breaches and verified remediations

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • AutoGen · Multi-Agent Framework
  • Garak · Security Scanner

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