Introducing Workflows: Automate Security Response Without Adding Friction

Security teams don’t need more findings. They need more context and a scalable way to act on it.

Today, we’re excited to announce Workflows, a new capability in Heeler that helps security teams operationalize response by automatically routing high-signal security events to the right systems and teams.

Workflows extend Heeler further into automating execution: closing the loop between detection and response without adding manual coordination overhead.

Why We Built Workflows

Modern security programs struggle with a familiar challenge:

• Findings are detected in one system
• Ownership lives in another
• Remediation tracking happens somewhere else
• And communication is spread across Slack threads and email

Even when teams have the right signals, operationalizing them consistently across repositories, services, and engineering teams is hard.

Workflows solve this by introducing event-driven automation directly inside Heeler.

Now, when meaningful security events occur, a new critical finding, a newly available remediation, a detected secret, or a compromised dependency, Heeler can automatically take action.

No manual triage.
No copy-paste.
No chasing engineers.

What Workflows Enable

Workflows allow security leaders to:

• Automate response to high-signal security events
• Enforce consistent security handling across teams
• Improve visibility and accountability through ticketing and messaging systems
• Reduce manual coordination between security and engineering
• Integrate Heeler into existing engineering and GRC workflows

This isn’t about adding more alerts.
It’s about ensuring the right actions happen automatically when risk thresholds are met.

Common Use Cases

Security teams are already using Workflows to standardize response and reduce time to remediation:

Automatically Create Tickets for High-Impact Findings

Ensure Critical vulnerabilities are immediately tracked in Jira or Linear — with full context — without manual triage.

Notify Teams When a Remediation Becomes Available

When Heeler identifies a new dependency remediation, alert the right teams to reduce exposure windows and accelerate patch adoption.

Escalate Secret Exposure in Real Time

Send immediate Slack or email notifications when secrets are detected to limit blast radius and prevent misuse.

Track Compromised Dependencies Across Services

Automatically export compromised dependency events to external systems for coordinated incident response and auditability.

Integrate Security Events Into GRC Platforms

Use webhooks to feed structured security signals into broader governance, risk, or incident management systems.

A Control Center for Automation

The Workflows page provides a centralized view of:

• All workflows and their status (Enabled / Disabled)
• Execution counts
• Configuration details
• The ability to edit, disable, or create workflows

As your organization matures, Workflows become a scalable way to formalize and standardize security response across teams.

Closing the Loop Between Detection and Response

Heeler has always focused on connecting software lineage, deployed artifacts, and real-world risk; giving teams the context they need across the application lifecycle.

Workflows extend that foundation.

They connect:

Security Signals
(findings, remediations, secrets, compromised dependencies)

with

Engineering Systems
(Jira, Slack, GRC platforms, and custom integrations)

This closes the gap between identifying risk and acting on it.