Heeler is an application security company focused on remediating risk across open source, code, and secrets for cloud-first software teams. Its platform is built around a context engine that connects repositories, dependencies, artifacts, deployments, and service relationships so security teams can understand how applications actually run in production.
Heeler positions its platform as a fix-first alternative to traditional vulnerability management. It combines deterministic analysis, AI-driven execution, runtime threat modeling, and preventative guardrails to help teams identify what is safely fixable, determine what is truly exploitable, and push remediation into developer workflows. The company also extends that model to AI-assisted development, adding governance and controls for agent-driven coding environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Heeler delivers a context-driven application security platform that unifies code, runtime, business, and ownership data into a shared operating layer for security and engineering teams. Its capabilities span exploitability analysis, remediation automation, service and dependency mapping, ownership assignment, lifecycle tracking, and policy enforcement across the development process.
The platform is designed for cloud-first environments and supports applications running on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Kubernetes. Heeler also supports developer and delivery workflows that use GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, along with common languages such as Python, Java, Go, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Verified integrations on Heeler’s site include API security tools such as Firetail, Traceable, Wallarm Security, and Salt Security, plus bug bounty platforms including HackerOne and Bugcrowd.
Products and Services
- ProductDNA: A live service catalog that maps changesets to deployments and unifies code, runtime, business, and security context across services, APIs, and dependencies.
- Application Security Posture Management (ASPM): A posture layer that correlates findings from security tools and native sources into a unified view with context-driven prioritization, reporting, and remediation tracking.
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA): A fix-first open source security capability that builds full dependency graphs, analyzes upgrade safety, and automates validated remediation for vulnerable libraries.
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST): Context-aware static analysis that uses cross-scan correlation, taint analysis, API modeling, and runtime-aware risk scoring to reduce noise and prioritize actionable findings.
- Secrets Detection & Validation: Language-aware secrets detection with active validation so teams can focus on exposed, exploitable secrets instead of high-volume scanner noise.
- Runtime Threat Modeling: Code-to-cloud threat modeling that evaluates exploitability using runtime reachability, internet exposure, service relationships, environmental boundaries, and business impact.
- Application Security Lifecycle Management: End-to-end remediation tracking that follows findings from introduction through code changes and deployment, with live visibility into ownership and resolution status.
- Response Orchestration: Workflow automation for remediation operations, including ownership assignment, ticket routing, SLO tracking, escalation, and developer guidance.
- Deterministic Agentic Remediation: Automated generation of validated, merge-ready pull requests for dependency and security fixes using deterministic analysis plus governed AI execution.
- Heeler Agent Skills: A recently introduced control layer for AI coding agents that embeds guidance, policy enforcement, and guardrails into agent-driven development workflows via MCP and related mechanisms.
- Heeler Endpoints: A recently introduced endpoint visibility capability that inventories and maps interfaces such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, WebSocket, webhook, Spring Boot actuator, and MCP endpoints from source code.
Target Customers
Heeler targets organizations that build and run cloud-first applications and need tighter coordination between security and engineering. Its platform is designed for CISOs, application security teams, product security teams, DevSecOps practitioners, and software developers who want security controls embedded directly into development workflows.
The offering fits teams working in modern environments that include microservices, monorepos, public cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted coding. Heeler is relevant for companies of different sizes, but its value is strongest for organizations trying to reduce alert noise, improve remediation throughput, govern AI-generated code, and prioritize risk based on how applications behave in production.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Heeler Platform AppSec is available through AWS Marketplace as a SaaS offering, giving customers a procurement channel inside their AWS environment.
- AWS: Heeler supports applications running on AWS as part of its cloud-first environment coverage.
- Microsoft Azure: Heeler supports applications running on Azure and is designed for cloud-first software environments that span Azure-based development and deployment workflows.
- Google Cloud Platform: Heeler supports applications running on Google Cloud Platform as part of its multi-cloud coverage for cloud-first applications.
Key People
- Christopher Hertz: Chief Executive Officer
- James Green: Chief Product Officer
- Trever McKee: Chief Technology Officer
- Christopher DeRamus: Chief Strategy Officer
- Dave Zilberman: Board Member
- Tae Hea Nahm: Board Observer
- Martino Pham: Principal Software Engineer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Employees: Approximately 24
- Annual Revenue: Approximately $2.74M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
