From Reactive to Proactive: Swimlane Secures Its Brand and Saves 10+ Hours a Week

By integrating Recorded Future's Brand and SecOps Intelligence modules into core workflows, Swimlane saves analysts time, prevents exposure, and drives more proactive defence across its security operations.

Swimlane, a leader in agentic AI automation for security operations, faced a common challenge: manual threat intelligence processes were consuming valuable analyst time and leaving gaps in visibility across their attack surface. By integrating Recorded Future's Brand Intelligence and SecOps Intelligence modules directly into their security workflows, Swimlane transformed their approach from reactive to proactive—automatically blocking hundreds of risky IPs daily, monitoring for brand threats in real-time, and reclaiming over 10 hours of analyst time each week for strategic defense work.

Goal

Overcoming time-consuming manual security processes and gaining deeper, faster threat visibility to protect the Swimlane brand and operations.

Challenge

Manual threat triage drained analyst time, while low visibility across attack surfaces left the business vulnerable to fast-moving threats.

Outcome

• Time savings of 10+ hours each week boosts morale because analysts have more time for higher-impact work
• Increased protection of brand integrity and customer trust by reducing the risk of public code exposure, leaked credentials, and domain abuse
• A more proactive, controlled security posture due to better visibility into Swimlane’s external attack surface
• Strengthened response capability with faster, intelligence-driven decisions during threat events

Manual triage slowed analyst efforts and left gaps in visibility

Even for a leading security automation company like Swimlane, expanding operations can create unforeseen issues that surface-level cybersecurity solutions can’t handle.

This scenario played out at Swimlane, a leader in agentic AI automation for all security functions. Swimlane builds products that orchestrate workflows across phishing triage, threat intelligence enrichment, incident response, and more. As their operations expanded, Director of Cloud Operations Kevin Mata recognized several critical security challenges they had to overcome, including manual processes that slowed the team’s response and an urgent need for deeper, faster threat visibility to protect the brand and operations.

“We had to perform manual threat intelligence ourselves, which took a lot of time. We were also using free tools, like VirusTotal, but were running out of API calls,” Mata says.

With limited API access and little contextual insight, analysts had to perform more onerous manual triage, especially for phishing and IP threats. Manual phishing triage took 30 minutes per suspicious email. Blocking malicious IPs could stretch to several hours, requiring on-prem firewalls and coordination and ticketing across AWS.

The team didn’t have the time to spare. They had to find a way to move faster without missing any steps along the way.

Upgrading security operations with automated threat detection

Swimlane chose Recorded Future for its actionable threat intelligence, automation-ready API, and flexible integrations that feed reliable threat intelligence directly into their platform.

“The big reason we went with Recorded Future was the ability to access all of their intelligence, the variety of services, and their API to pull data and leverage it inside our platform,” Mata says.

Swimlane uses SecOps Intelligence to identify threats faster and neutralize them before they do any damage. Automated IP blocking, in particular, has made a world of difference. Blocking risky IPs used to take analysts up to two hours per list. Now, Recorded Future identifies and blocks malicious IPs three times a day, delivered straight into Swimlane through Recorded Future’s API.

“We were spending hours looking up IPs and blocking them. Now Recorded Future does it automatically, and our analysts get their time back,” Mata says.

Protecting the business with real-time monitoring

This improved, proactive approach also applies to malware detection. Instead of waiting for reactive alerts, Swimlane’s team receives next-day alerts from Recorded Future and can contain potential threats earlier.

Meanwhile, continuous monitoring of public code repositories ensures sensitive data isn’t accidentally exposed, and they don’t have to do any more manual edits.

Swimlane also leverages Brand Intelligence to monitor domain abuse and safeguard executive identities.

“We add our VIPs to a list and get visibility into any threats, whether it’s dark web chatter or a misuse of their names or usernames. Having this list in place helps protect our brand and gives us peace of mind,” Mata says.

Smarter security workflows with seamless API integration

Swimlane hasn't just automated detection. Through a Swimlane integration, the Recorded Future API allows them to trigger automated response workflows instantly. It ingests threats into Swimlane, grabs additional context from Recorded Future, creates Slack alerts for SOC visibility, and automatically initiates remediation.

"Being able to ingest these into Swimlane gives us a single pane of glass, and analysts can remediate these threats immediately," Mata says.

Because remediation begins immediately, Swimlane neutralizes threats before they cause significant damage. The system is more resilient and less vulnerable to attack, and analysts spend less time on manual intervention. All that reclaimed time goes straight to where it counts: threat hunting, strategic defence, and staying ahead of bad actors.

Stopping attacks before they start

Soon after onboarding, Recorded Future proved its worth.

“We got an alert that an internal email was seen on a public code repository,” Mata says. “When we investigated, we found a user had accidentally made a repo public. It wasn’t malicious, but it could have been.”

This near miss demonstrated Recorded Future’s utility in surfacing security risks that Swimlane couldn’t previously detect.

Saving time, expanding coverage, regaining control

Adopting Recorded Future has made it easy for Swimlane to embed threat intelligence into daily operations. The impact has been remarkable:

• 10+ hours saved each week through automated IP blocking, threat lookups, and code monitoring
• 700–1,300 IPs automatically blocked daily
• Improved visibility into leaked credentials, public code exposure, and brand misuse
• Faster, smarter decision-making because Recorded Future’s APIs facilitate faster intelligence gathering
• Improved morale as analysts focus on strategic defence instead of repetitive tasks

“My experience with Recorded Future has been awesome,” Mata says. “Without them, we’d risk accidental code exposure and lose visibility into threats targeting our brand."

Behind it all is a great team that has supported Swimlane every step of the way along their journey.

“The biggest benefit of working with Record Future has been the people," Maya says. "Whenever there are new modules or platform updates, we get the right proactive support.”

More visibility leads to more control

Swimlane’s security team used to spend an average of five minutes per alert, with daily alert volumes often hitting 40 and, occasionally, over 100.

“Now, we get that time back,” Mata says. “Recorded Future has helped us evolve from a reactive approach to one that’s proactive and strategic.”

Having a 360° view across Swimlane’s external attack surface means the team can detect everything from code exposure and leaked credentials to IP risk and brand misuse — reclaiming the control they need to grow securely.