Heeler Recognized for Excellence in Application Security

Heeler has been selected as a winner in the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in the Application Security category!

This recognition is a testament to our commitment to modernizing application security, helping security and engineering teams build secure software faster, manage security risk, and shift securely left. Our approach allows teams to prioritize and fix the 1% of vulnerabilities that are running in production and are exploitable. Instead of relying on generic CVSS scores, Heeler enables teams to focus on the true risk of a vulnerability to their specific running application.

A Recognition of Innovation & Impact

The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards honor companies, products, and professionals who demonstrate innovation, leadership, and impact in cybersecurity.

“We congratulate Heeler Security on this outstanding achievement in the ‘Application Security’ category of the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, founder of Cybersecurity Insiders and organizer of the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. “As we celebrate 10 years of recognizing excellence in cybersecurity, your innovation, commitment, and leadership set a powerful example for the entire industry.”

As organizations increasingly adopt microservices, dynamic cloud deployments, and AI-generated code, application security teams face mounting challenges in keeping up. The fundamental issue? In cloud environments, maintaining security context is costly and fleeting. Without real-time insight into code, runtime, and business context—a runtime threat model—teams struggle to see how running code translates into risk.

How Heeler is Changing the Game

Traditional SCA and vulnerability management tools generate findings but lack the context to prioritize risks effectively, leading to alert fatigue and wasted cycles on non-critical issues. Heeler takes a radically different approach, automating context collection, risk correlation, and vulnerability lifecycle management to help teams focus only on what matters most.

🔹 Identify Reachable, Exploitable Vulnerabilities in Production with Business Context – Heeler eliminates costly triage by correlating vulnerabilities with runtime exposure, business impact, and exploitability. Instead of wading through endless false positives, teams see only the 1% of findings that matter—internet-accessible, reachable, exploitable, and business-critical vulnerabilities.

🔹 Automates Ownership, Assignment & SLA Enforcement – No more manually chasing down owners or managing outdated tickets. Heeler traces vulnerabilities to exact commits and automatically assigns fixes to the right developers. SLAs enforce themselves, and issues close automatically when resolved.

🔹 Continuously Models Cloud Services & Threats – Heeler discovers and maps every cloud service, dynamically maintaining a live service catalog, real-time architecture diagrams, and a continuously updated runtime threat model. Security teams gain a real-time understanding of their environment, ensuring they can detect material changes before they become incidents.

🔹 Prevents Risks from Reaching Production – Heeler enforces security guardrails in the CI/CD pipeline, automatically blocking insecure code from deployment and ensuring security reviews happen proactively, not reactively.

What’s Next for Heeler?

This award validates our vision of modern application security—where security teams no longer chase endless vulnerabilities but instead gain real-time insight, enforce proactive controls, and eliminate risk before it becomes a problem.

If you’re looking to modernize your application security strategy, let’s talk!

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