AI-Driven Network Detection and Response With Automated Playbooks

Cienaga Systems is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 by Inigo Merino, who serves as chief executive. Before starting the company he was a senior vice president in Deutsche Bank's corporate security and business continuity organization, where he co-led its global computer emergency response team, and he previously held information security and risk management roles at Merrill Lynch. The company is United States based and sells to medium and large enterprises, managed service providers, and regulated industries.

Its platform, APEX, is a network detection and response system rather than a log-collecting SIEM. Machine learning models profile network traffic and flag anomalies, including behavior that matches no existing signature, and detections feed automated response playbooks that act without waiting for an analyst to triage. Full packet capture backs the detections, so an investigator can reconstruct exactly what crossed the wire, and forensic analysis tooling works against that same captured data for post-incident review.

The architecture is cloud-native and multi-tenant, which is what makes it workable for managed service providers that must keep one client's data separated from another's inside a single deployment. Compliance reporting is mapped to NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS for customers who need an evidence trail. The company's argument centers on time to detection, contrasting near-immediate identification against published industry averages for attacker dwell time measured in months.