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Swimlane Ranks ‘Most Valuable Pioneer’ in SecOps AI

Swimlane outperforms Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, D3, Tines, Fortinet, Torq, and Anomali for SecOps AI

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Swimlane, AI hyperautomation for the entire security organization, today announced it has been named the “Most Valuable Pioneer” in AI maturity by QKS Group. In the 2025 QKS AI Maturity Matrix™, Swimlane ranks ahead of seven other vendors for its AI-first productization, advanced vision and agentic AI roadmap. Swimlane is ranked ahead of Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, D3, Tines, Fortinet, Torq and Anomali.

“Swimlane is leading the shift toward a new AI-led model for security operations,” said James Brear, CEO of Swimlane. “Hero brings the power of agentic AI into the hands of today’s defenders, turning complex processes into intelligent, streamlined actions. This is about more than automation. It's about creating AI that truly understands and accelerates the way security teams work.”

Hero: The ultimate SecOps companion

According to Venkatesh Kopparthi, Analyst at QKS Group, “Swimlane Turbine enhances SecOps with Hero, an agentic AI companion designed to streamline security operations.”

Kopparthi added, “With features like real-time decision support, AI-driven case summarization, recommended actions, and automated reporting, Hero helps security teams improve efficiency, accuracy, and response times.”

Swimlane Turbine and Hero AI take the lead

With the industry’s first private agentic AI companion for security operations, Swimlane is redefining what’s possible, transforming security teams into forces of intelligence, speed and efficiency. This recognition validates Swimlane Turbine as the most robust and widely adopted AI automation platform. Powered by Hero AI, low-code automation and a cloud-native architecture, Turbine delivers the flexibility and scalability needed to automate anything — from SOC workflows to vulnerability management, compliance and beyond.

Swimlane was also recently named the leader in technology excellence and the first-ever “Ace Performer” in the 2025 QKS Group SPARK Matrix™ for Security Automation. Of the 20 vendors evaluated, Swimlane was recognized for its ability to effectively combine agentic AI, generative AI and low-code automation to address critical security operational challenges.

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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 hyperautomation platform for every security function. Only Swimlane gives you the scale and flexibility to build your own hyperautomation applications to unify security teams, tools and telemetry ensuring today’s SecOps are always a step ahead of tomorrow's threats.

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