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Swimlane has unveiled a comprehensive fleet of AI agents and an enhanced agent-building platform designed to automate and augment security operations. These "Hero AI" agents, integrated into the Swimlane Turbine platform, perform specialized tasks with dynamic reasoning, aiming to close the cybersecurity talent gap by automating the equivalent work of thousands of security analysts.
Swimlane launches a fleet of AI agents and an agent-builder to automate security operations.
These "Hero AI" agents perform complex reasoning and tasks, acting as intelligent microservices.
Agents are natively integrated into the Swimlane Turbine platform and available via its Marketplace.
The approach combines AI agents with orchestrated playbooks for guardrails, control, and auditability.
Swimlane claims its AI automation currently performs work equivalent to 60,000 SOC analysts daily across its customer base.
The company reports a 75% reduction in mean time to respond within its own SOC using the technology.
This release represents Swimlane's vision for an increasingly autonomous Security Operations Center (SOC), where human analysts manage fleets of specialized AI agents. These agents are designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks—such as querying diverse threat intelligence feeds—that previously required deterministic playbooks or manual intervention. The goal is to accelerate risk closure with less human effort, effectively scaling security capacity in a measurable and cost-effective way.
A key differentiator is Swimlane's model of using Turbine playbooks as orchestrators and guardrails for its AI agents. While the agents perform dynamic reasoning, the playbooks provide the necessary control logic, cost optimization, and compliance enforcement. This hybrid approach allows organizations to integrate AI-powered reasoning into structured workflows, maintaining predictability and auditability while lowering the barrier to advanced automation.
To support this new agent workforce, Swimlane has enhanced the user experience of its Turbine platform. Updates include the ability to drag and drop AI agents directly into playbooks within the Turbine Canvas, streamlining automation design and accelerating adoption. This makes deploying and managing AI agents more intuitive, allowing security teams to build and optimize agents tailored to their specific tools, data, and processes.
The company cites significant internal metrics to demonstrate the potential impact, including a 75% reduction in mean time to respond (MTTR) within its own SOC and thousands of cases closed autonomously. By framing AI agents as a solution to the pervasive talent shortage, Swimlane positions this technology not as a mere feature addition but as a foundational shift that delivers concrete, scalable security capacity.
Swimlane's launch of an AI agent fleet marks a strategic move to deeply integrate agentic AI into the fabric of security operations. By providing specialized, explainable agents that operate within the controlled environment of its automation platform, Swimlane aims to make sophisticated, AI-driven security automation more accessible and trustworthy for enterprises and MSSPs, transforming how security teams scale their defenses against evolving threats.
About Swimlane
At Swimlane, we believe the convergence of agentic AI and automation can solve the most challenging security, compliance and IT/OT operations problems. With Swimlane, enterprises and MSSPs benefit from the world’s first and only AI automation platform for every security function. Only Swimlane gives you the scale and flexibility to unify security teams, tools and telemetry, ensuring today’s SecOps are always a step ahead of tomorrow’s threats.
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