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Cody Cornell, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Swimlane – Interview Series

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Cody Cornell, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Swimlane – Interview Series

Cody Cornell, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Swimlane, leads the company’s strategic direction and oversees the development of its security automation and orchestration solutions. He is dedicated to fostering an open exchange of expertise and best practices, collaborating closely with industry-leading technology vendors and partners. Through these partnerships, Cody identifies opportunities to streamline and automate security operations, accelerating cyber response and advancing security automation initiatives.

Swimlane, founded by a security practitioner familiar with the challenges faced by Security Operations (SecOps) teams, provides a comprehensive security automation platform designed to integrate and enhance SecOps workflows. The company has grown to become one of the largest and fastest-growing providers of security automation solutions globally.

As a co-founder of Swimlane, what was the initial vision that led you to create the company, and how has that vision evolved with the rise of AI and automation in cybersecurity?

When we set out to build Swimlane, our focus wasn’t on market size or sales. Instead, we zeroed in on solving the real challenges security teams were facing and helping the organizations we worked with. Our goal was to create a platform built by practitioners, for practitioners—something that security teams would truly value and enjoy using.

We’ve succeeded by offering flexibility rather than prescribing rigid automation frameworks. This approach enables our customers to tackle their unique challenges with creativity, and they continually surprise us with the innovative ways they use the platform. As the demand for automation—and now AI—soars, Swimlane stands apart with a solution that goes beyond anything else in the market, enabling organizations to automate every aspect of their security operations. Today, we’re proud to be the largest and fastest-growing security automation company in the world.

Swimlane Turbine is known for combining automation, generative AI, and low-code capabilities. For those unfamiliar, can you explain how these three components work together to enhance security operations?

Automation, generative AI, and low-code truly are the triple threat that organizations need to solve the most challenging problems across their entire security organization. This transformative combination allows security teams to quickly build automation with limitless integration possibilities, driving significant time and resource savings. By combining these capabilities, Swimlane establishes itself at the heart of security operations (SecOps), offering the industry’s most comprehensive set of tools to analyze and act on telemetry across the entire security ecosystem.

Low-code automation is a key feature of Swimlane Turbine. How does Turbine Canvas enable organizations to quickly build and deploy security automation workflows, even for teams that may not have extensive coding experience?

Turbine Canvas is a low-code playbook-building studio that unleashes the true potential of low code, transforming it from a buzzword into a powerful tool that democratizes automation for all users. By using modular, reusable programming components, Turbine Canvas empowers users to create playbooks through an intuitive, user-friendly visual interface.

Turbine Canvas features no-code native actions and AI-playbook building tools that enable SecOps teams to design automation workflows as easily as drawing a flowchart. It allows security teams to gain instant, comprehensive visibility into playbook connections, make centralized edits, and use multiple triggers per playbook for unmatched control and flexibility. This approach redefines automation, prioritizing clarity and collaboration over cryptic, machine-driven logic.

One of Swimlane Turbine’s biggest innovations is Hero AI, which includes case summarization and recommended actions. How do these AI-driven tools assist security teams in making faster and more informed decisions?

Hero AI, Swimlane’s suite of AI-powered innovations, amplifies the capabilities of the Swimlane Turbine platform, combining human and machine intelligence to streamline SecOps workflows and maximize ROI. With a private large language model (LLM), Hero AI protects customer data while delivering AI-augmented automation. The Crafted Prompts feature gives users the ability to leverage their alert, case, intelligence or automation pipelines in their prompts to the Swimlane LLM. This ensures that they are using all context at their disposal to get the best AI responses, but doing so in a secure and private way.

Key tools within Hero AI further elevate security operations. Context-Aware Recommended Actions draw on industry frameworks such as NIST and MITRE, as well as the organization’s own Knowledge Center documentation, to deliver tailored recommendations that enhance decision-making. AI Case Summarization simplifies the complexity of incidents, helping analysts prioritize and address critical issues faster. Additionally, AI Reporting enables users to generate stakeholder-ready after-action reports with a single click, in any language, and automatically share them. This functionality ensures seamless communication with stakeholders, fostering collaboration and improving decision-making processes across diverse teams.

The platform also features the Active Sensing Fabric for processing vast amounts of security data. Can you discuss how this capability enhances traditional SOC functions and improves the overall efficiency of security operations?

The Active Sensing Fabric enables security automation solutions to go beyond legacy SOAR platform telemetry sources, ingesting larger and more diverse and hard-to-reach data sets while taking immediate action at the source—eliminating the need for extensive coding to connect technology silos. This capability allows for faster identification, tracking, and response to threats.

Swimlane Turbine’s Active Sensing Fabric is designed to drive the evolution of security operations. It ingests data at cloud scale from a range of distributed big data sources, essential for today’s complex infrastructure that includes webhooks, poll requests, pub/sub, file creation, SMS, email, and IoT data streams.

By enabling automation platforms to draw data directly from these sources, the Active Sensing Fabric moves action closer to the source to minimize dwell time. It continuously listens across the security ecosystem, taking immediate action directly at the source.

With Swimlane being trusted by 40 Fortune 500 companies and several U.S. federal agencies, what strategies have been most effective in building and maintaining such high levels of trust with your clients?

AI automation is emerging as the cornerstone of modern security operations, and Swimlane stands at the forefront of this transformation. By tackling both the immediate demands of real-time threat response and the strategic imperative for measurable business outcomes, Swimlane is leading SecOps innovation. Leveraging AI automation, advanced analytics, best-in-class case management and a dynamic marketplace, Swimlane sets new benchmarks for efficiency and scalability in security operations. These advancements empower organizations to fortify their defenses, reduce operational strain, and build a resilient security posture in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Swimlane Turbine delivers a reported 240% return on investment for enterprises. Could you share specific features or case studies that illustrate how this ROI is achieved in practice?

Swimlane Turbine’s ability to deliver a 240% return on investment (ROI) in the first year is grounded in its transformative impact on enterprise operations. According to a TAG Cyber report, this ROI is achieved through several key benefits:

Personnel Time Savings: By streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks, Turbine significantly reduces the manual effort required from security teams, allowing analysts to focus on strategic and high-value activities.

Faster Incident Response: Turbine accelerates response times, helping prevent potential breaches and minimizing the operational costs associated with incident recovery.

Lower ITSM Costs: Swimlane’s integrations reduce the reliance on disjointed and overlapping tools, resulting in cost savings for IT service management systems.

Cloud-Native Efficiency: Turbine’s cloud-native architecture reduces infrastructure costs, providing scalability without the need for extensive on-premises resources.

The ROI is further amplified by our AI capabilities. A follow-up study from TAG Cyber estimated that AI enhancements could increase ROI by an additional 20%. For example, AI-powered automation in a typical 20-person SOC, where the average employee salary is $250,000, can boost productivity by 20%, potentially saving $1 million annually in personnel costs alone.

As automation becomes more prevalent, there are concerns about the potential displacement of security professionals. How does Swimlane address these concerns, and in what ways does your platform empower security teams rather than replace them?

Despite rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and automation within cybersecurity, preserving a human element in operations remains essential. Human intuition and expertise are invaluable in interpreting and addressing the subtleties of cyber threats that AI might miss. SOC analysts bring contextual understanding, ethical judgment, and creative problem-solving—capabilities that AI has yet to fully replicate.

At the same time, AI and automation won’t displace security professionals but will instead displace low-level tasks. By automating routine processes and using AI for grunt work, humans can focus on strategic decision-making, which ultimately empowers SOC teams and improves the day-to-day life for all roles within the SOC.

Swimlane seamlessly integrates AI with your team of human analysts. Hero AI is a revolutionary suite of AI-powered innovations that combines human expertise with machine intelligence, streamlining SecOps workflows and maximizing return on investment.

In your view, how will AI continue to shape the future of security operations, and what role do you see Swimlane playing in that future?

AI’s impact on cybersecurity and beyond is undeniably transformative. In a digital era marked by the increasing volume, velocity, and sophistication of cyber threats, AI is not just a luxury but a necessity. By automating routine tasks and enhancing threat detection, AI empowers human experts to focus on more complex, strategic challenges, ultimately strengthening our defenses. The majority of organizations (89%) report that the use of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) has already improved productivity and efficiency for their cybersecurity teams. As a result, a third (33%) of organizations plan to allocate more than 30% of their 2025 cybersecurity budgets to AI-powered or AI-enhanced solutions. Organizations that embrace AI are positioning themselves as leaders in innovation, turning vulnerabilities into opportunities to build more resilient security postures. As both organizations and societies face these evolving threats, responsible and strategic AI adoption will be crucial—not only for enhancing cybersecurity but also for safeguarding democratic processes and public trust.

At Swimlane, we’re committed to seamlessly integrating AI across our platform to make it more accessible and effective. With the pressures of breaches, regulatory fines, understaffed teams, and mounting board expectations, security operations centers (SOCs) need a force multiplier—security automation and AI—now more than ever. Swimlane is here to provide that solution, empowering teams to respond faster and more effectively to the evolving threat landscape.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to lear more should visit Swimlane.

[autismdogg]

Build-A-Bear vending machine, JFK Airport (Terminal 4)

[queerautism]

I'm not even a hardcore anti AI person. I think LLMs are neat as a technology and I enjoy running a small open source model locally on my computer!!! But I truly feel like a guy who's into origami suddenly watching society decide they're gonna make every building's load bearing wall out of origami paper. Like that's not what it's for 😭

[anarchistettin]

I cannot tolerate interacting with USA supporters.

Blue maga pisses me off more than red, because red voters are too stupidly brainwashed to be blamed for much other than shitting the bed. They're pathetic, but violent. Their danger isn't coming from them being too bright or clever.

When liberals shit the bed, it's on purpose & with all the data about bed shitting fully at their fingertips. They're deeply fucking dangerous. They praise the FBI every day, now. They demand cops, they insist on responsible surrender to and complicity with rapacious neoliberalism. They are worse. They're the trustees of the prison and they are proud of it. They are more than capable of cleverly serving Trump up as their excuse for No End of massacre, pillage, theft, pure malice.

Liberals can, should, and will fuck all the way off, forever.

[muaka-safari]

May I ask, did you get around to writing that essay about ga-matoran in Metru Nui and their connection to the Great Temple? Not expecting anything! Just curious!

Oh, I think I wrote a bullet-pointed list on ga-matoran and their connection to the Great Temple, specifically looking at how it affects their concept of gender here, but I never wrote anything long-hand.

If a quick rundown is what you're looking for, follow that link. If you do enjoy long(ish), rambling essays from someone making far too extensive headcanons for fictional worlds, read on.

So. Ga-Metru. The metru of the ga, the metru specifically for the ga, that metru. Now, I could launch straight into the impact of Ga-Metru being Mata Nui-favoured... but this is my essay, so I'm gonna roll this a bit further back and delve into a possible reason of why Ga-Metru is favoured.

Because I have a personal headcanon that Ga-Metru's favoured status was very much a byproduct of the natural resources.

Look at it this way: You need to build a protodermis purification facility on Metru Nui. You've already built the forges and furnaces; now you need to be able to source the building material for these smithies. So you need somewhere with a lot of liquid protodermis readily at hand - somewhere, for example, like Ga-Metru.

And then, because you probably shouldn't put all your important masks in a place full of burny, melty fire, you store your kanohi mask here (instead of Ta-Metru) as the other major building in this budding metru.

So, ta-da, you now have your second major site in Metru Nui, and over time that becomes Ga-Metru, home to the Ga-Matoran. Second-eldest metru, not out of any holy significance, but because it provided an important resource.

Time passes, and your purification/storage facility becomes a place of spiritual importance. I mean, it makes sense. It's an old, vital building, storing items of power, and isn't the hot, noisy space of Ta-Metru, plus the act of purifying carries a kind of holiness to it.

So, the next logical train of thought: if Ga-Metru is home to the temple of your god, then - obviously - god must like this metru best.

Next, next logical train of thought: if Ga-Metru is the favoured metru, then those who live there must be Mata Nui's favoured matorans. Or, at least, they are spiritually closer to Mata Nui, living basically on the doorstep of your connection to him.

By this point, matoran have certainly been granted sentience, and with that comes all the messy irrationality of thinking for yourself. What a lot of religions like to do is recognise those singled out, spiritually, with a title. Father. Reverend. Back in the medieval era, catholic priests were called "Sir" the same way a knight was.

Regardless, the point is: you need a name or a title to recognise that Ga-Matoran are different. And (headcanon going strong here) because Matoran weren't programmed with a sense of gender, they only really have "he/him" for daily use, with "brother" as a title of respect.

So language does what it always does in these circumstances - it adapts. Except, well, the Matoran may not have a concept of gender, but the Great Beings who created them did. So, somewhere in that pesky programming and superfluous data, there's a not-memory of "sister" being an equivalent title to "brother" - they don't understand how it relates to gender, they just know it feels right. And with "sister" comes the pronouns "she/her" so suddenly you have a whole metru with their own special pronouns and titles.

And, ta-da! Matorans have now accidentally ungendered gendered pronouns.

I also think it adds an interesting sense of irony for any (head)canons that Ga-Matorans consider themselves above or better than other Matorans (because then their importance is built on a coincidence, rather than actual Mata Nui favour) but that's for another day - or for other people to take a crack at, if they'd like. (I know I've certainly seen some interesting posts about Ga-Matoran self-importance!)

I personally was just fascinated by the fact that the "female" Matoran are the "holy" Matoran, despite gender being nonexistant, and examining one possible reason for Ga-Metru gaining its favoured reputation. (What can I say? I love clawing my way into the cracks of existing world-building.) Feel free to agree, disagree, whatever, but these are my personal headcanons and I hope people enjoyed reading about them!

[stoned-btw]

ive had the same message copy, pasted, and sent to me via anon 5x in the last 24hrs. I keep blocking them but they keep sending it

so no. i don't think this is a genuine person asking for help. i think it is most likely scammers fishing using other people's tragedy as bait.

even if it was an actual person in need- my next 3 paychecks are spoken for. i have absolutely 0 disposable income to share.

i know posting this will not stop the spam but i hope you are all blocking these kinds of messages and not being emotional manipulated into providing support/funding

[knittinglizards]

having an idea (to understate it) for another stardew save after i get to perfection on my newer sve file instead of playing anything in my backlog

fishpong

[titumizan]

Make Money Online

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

Links:

You can find Fully Automated at https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/ The Sogorea Te Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Solarpunk 2050: http://solarpunk2050.de/ Solarpunk Pioneers Fund: http://solarpunk-pioneers.org/ Coyote & Crow: https://coyoteandcrow.net/ Lunar Echos: https://affinity-games.itch.io/ Neon Black: https://notwriting.itch.io/ Legacy: Life Among the Ruins: https://ufopress.co.uk/legacy-life-among-the-ruins/ Fighting for the Future: https://www.android-press.com/product-page/fighting-for-the-future-ebook “Murder in the Tool Library” by AE Marling: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-in-the-tool-library-a-e-marling/1144354144 “Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani: https://www.versobooks.com/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” by Peter Fraise: https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures

[neona]

feel like I'm having a sort of delayed reaction to Satisfactory and Factorio doing really well with their updates since my perspective has mostly been that well duh they're gonna do well they're really good games

but now it's hitting me that they're becoming prominent enough to possibly have some cultural effect on the games industry

will be interesting to see if we see more automationy stuff seep into other genres, it's already happening a tiny bit

heck it'd be funny if we live to see a mainstream AAA automation game - probably not that likely, but I'm sure we can expect to see it in one as a side system, assuming we haven't already

it feels like a little automation is a straightforward addition to the basic base building you'll see bolted onto random games sometimes (and extremely basic automation is already a common element in these systems anyway)

[askagamedev]

What build system do AAA studios typically use? I know that Electronic Arts has their own build system, but is this common?

Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher. This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build. The larger the project/franchise, the more elaborate and powerful these build systems tend to be.

The Call of Duty team, for example, has a build system that allows developers to build the game with a shelved changelist against the current depot on multiple platforms (PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX, PC), and run a full suite of tests on the result in order to validate the changes. The devs are required to run this build and validation process before being allowed to submit their changes in order to ensure stability in the game. The build system is also constantly running in a cycle to compile all of the game's maps and packages for QA to test.

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[gwynndolin]

Every new week on the Satisfactory subreddit brings us a new post asking about what the point of the automated miner recipe is

[squeakadeeks]

i feel like my apartment is doing experiments on me bc every night they keep introducing new machines that are extremely loud and buzz at uneven intervals all night long. a few weeks ago there was this one that would buzz for 30 seconds and increase in pitch, then abruptly stop, stay off for about a minute, then start again non stop from about 10pm-6am, and last night there was a new one that didnt have any changing pitch but it was obscenely loud and would buzz for about a minute, then be off for a minute before starting up again all night long on repeat and i deadass barely slept because of it but im still just like..WHAT IS THE CAUSE D:

[mortal-ghost]

got the ableton live free trial and i am Living

[zeemakesthings]

My Introduction

Name: Zee

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 20

Interests: Gaming, Computers and Electronics, Music, Music Tech - Specifics: Satisfactory, Minecraft, BeamNG, Phantom Forces, Marvel Rivals, Cities Skylines, Subnautica, TLOU, FNAF, LLM, ML, PC Building, HomeAssistant, IoT, Self-Hosting, Automation, Drones, Trains, Photography, House, Jazz, Fusion, Funk, D&B, Sound Engineering, Studio Design, Recording, Mixing, Drumming

Looking forward to meeting new people and sharing my experiences!

[fountainpenguin]

Every time I hear someone say they think the phantoms are annoying and/or should be in the Nether or End, I crack up because I'm not sure they realize that confining them to the dimensions where you don't have a day/night cycle to warn you of their impending attack and your main defense against them will cause you to immediately explode and die sounds exponentially worse and more hilarious.