Stream Security Automates Cloud Incident Response with Guided Runbooks

New Response Capabilities Ensure SecOps Teams Choose the Optimal Response Path Based on Real-Time Understanding of Threat and Business Impact

San Francisco, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stream Security, a leader in real-time cloud detection and response, today announced its new guided response runbooks, designed to automate response workflows and dramatically reduce Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) for security operations (SecOps) teams. These runbooks leverage Stream's unique CloudTwin model to harness real-time visibility as part of a structured response process, reducing dependencies on Cloud Security and DevOps teams for comprehensive investigation and response.

Cloud attacks unfold in minutes, but traditional security tools often leave SecOps teams scrambling for hours or days to respond. This critical gap stems from a lack of real-time visibility, hindering their ability to understand the scope of an attack, identify responsible parties, and contain threats effectively. Stream Security's guided response runbooks address this challenge by providing step-by-step guidance based on live cloud data, empowering analysts at every tier to take decisive action.

With Stream, analysts can now utilize predictive response impact to guide every step of their threat mitigation strategy. Powered by real-time cloud context that spans network activity, behavioral signals, and configuration changes, Stream's CloudTwin provides security teams with full visibility into how each response action will affect their environment. This moves response planning beyond playbooks, enabling tailored mitigation per incident based on breach scope, resolution paths, and potential business impact.

For teams that previously spent hours assessing cloud response impact, Stream's guided response runbooks eliminate overcorrection, guesswork, and misaligned execution. What once required multi-team coordination and manual scoping is now streamlined into a single, informed workflow.

"In today's dynamic cloud environments, precision is paramount," said Stav Sitnikov, Chief Product Officer at Stream Security. "Our new guided response runbooks, powered by the CloudTwin, provide SecOps teams with the real-time visibility and prescriptive workflows they need to respond to threats with confidence and eliminate the traditional bottlenecks that lead to delayed response. This allows security teams to move at cloud speed."

Stream Security's CloudTwin technology creates a continuously updated digital twin of the cloud environment, mapping every asset, identity, configuration, and access path. This real-time model enables the runbooks to provide:

• Response Decision Support: Stream will dynamically present response scenarios to teams based on potential business impact for each incident, allowing teams to proceed faster with remediation procedures.
• Context-Rich Guidance: Runbooks are tailored to the specific cloud environment and enriched with real-time context, ensuring analysts have the information they need at their fingertips.
• Automated Workflows: The runbooks automate key response actions, streamlining processes and reducing the potential for human error.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: By providing clear ownership information and facilitating communication, the runbooks enable seamless collaboration between SecOps and other teams.
• Faster Remediation: By eliminating the need for manual correlation and escalation, the runbooks significantly accelerate MTTR.

The guided response recommendations also include actions to contain threats at the perimeter level, such as applying firewall rules or web application firewall (WAF) policies to block malicious traffic before it reaches critical assets. Teams can also quarantine compromised workloads or user accounts in line with attack paths to contain threats using existing controls. 

With Stream's guided response, security analysts gain immediate visibility into the full attack storyline so they can determine severity, scope, and further steps in minutes rather than hours. Investigations once managed on fragmented platforms and workflows can shift to a shared operational image across security and cloud teams that integrates threat response.

For teams managing countless potential threat alerts, reducing manual triage is critical. Stream's guided runbooks enable teams to automatically respond to high-confidence alerts, freeing up time and focus for complex, high-impact cases. Security leaders can define thresholds for automation, balancing speed with governance to reduce decision fatigue without compromising control.

Stream's guided response recommendations integrate seamlessly with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR and Firewall tools, enabling SecOps teams to mitigate threats without leaving their existing workflows. Alerts from the SIEM are enriched with real-time cloud context, then routed to SOAR platforms with clear, prioritized response guidance from the CloudTwin for automated response.

This eliminates swivel-chair investigations that force analysts to move between platforms, tools, and teams, extends the value of current security investments, and accelerates response times to threats. With Stream Security's guided response runbooks, organizations can transform their cloud incident response from a reactive, fragmented process into a proactive, coordinated effort.

About Stream Security
Stream Security delivers the only cloud detection and response solution that SecOps teams can trust. Born in the cloud, Stream's CloudTwin solution enables real-time cloud threat and exposure modeling to accelerate response in today's highly dynamic cloud enterprise environments. By using the Stream Security platform, SecOps teams gain unparalleled visibility and can pinpoint exposures and threats by understanding the past, present, and future of their cloud infrastructure.

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