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Secrets Detection and Validation
Real-Time Detection and Validation for Exposed Credentials
Secrets That Matter
Less Noise. More Signal.
Real Risk Reduction.
Secret Validation: Identifying Real, Exploitable Risk
Detection alone isn’t enough. Heeler Secrets goes further by validating whether a detected secret is actually usable.
Checksum-Aware Validation
Heeler supports checksum-aware matching to reject structurally invalid or fake tokens immediately, eliminate false positives before live validation, and align with modern token formats that use prefix + checksum designs.
Active External Validation
When applicable, Heeler performs active validation by checking secrets against live systems, including cloud service APIs, database connectivity tests, and API token verification against real endpoints. Heeler external validation is cross-cloud and multi-platform.
700+ Rules and Support for Custom Rules
Heeler provides detection and validation rules across dozens of providers, ensuring high signal, low noise, and immediate focus on real, exploitable risk.
Beyond Regex: Smarter Secrets Detection
Heeler detects exposed secrets across your codebase and history with high precision by combining language awareness, deep context, and high-performance analysis.
Language-Aware Detection
Heeler understands the syntax and structure of coding languages allowing it to identify real secrets while dramatically reducing false positives.
Commit History Coverage
Heeler scans full commit history to uncover active secrets that were removed from code but never invalidated, exposing hidden risk that traditional scanners miss and attackers actively exploit.
High-Performance Analysis at Scale
The likelihood of open-source vulnerabilities being exploited based on multiple data sources.
Secrets Coverage Across Your Development Environment
Heeler provides you consistent visibility across modern software development environments.
Broad Language Coverage
Heeler detects secrets across more than 20 programming languages.
Enterprise SCM Support
Heeler supports GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket, delivering consistent secrets detection across your organization’s source control platforms.
Continuous Scanning
Heeler continuously analyzes code as it changes, ensuring newly introduced secrets are detected early rather than discovered after exposure.
Heeler Tackles the Biggest Secrets Challenges
Heeler Secrets helps security teams cut through noise, surface real exposure, and act quickly before leaked credentials turn into incidents.
Too Much Noise, Not Enough Signal
Traditional secret scanners overwhelm teams with stale, invalid, or non-exploitable findings. Heeler validates secrets in real time, ensuring teams focus only on credentials that represent real risk.
Hidden Risk Across Modern Development
Secrets often persist long after teams believe they’ve been removed, quietly exposing critical systems. Heeler continuously scans across development workflows to uncover active secrets before attackers do.
Slow, Manual Remediation
Even when real secrets are found, validating and fixing them takes time security teams don’t have. Heeler uses 700+ detection and validation rules across hundreds of providers to rapidly confirm exposure and prioritize remediation with confidence.
Benefits
Turning Secrets Exposure into Action
Find What Attackers Look For
Heeler uncovers the credentials attackers actively mine for and exploit, including secrets traditional scanners miss or ignore.
Prove Risk Before You Escalate It
Validation confirms whether a secret is active and usable, allowing teams to act with certainty instead of speculation.
Security That Keeps Up with Code
High-performance, continuous scanning operates in real time across large repositories without slowing developers or security teams.
What experts are saying about us
"Heeler redefines AppSec with a secure-by-design approach, providing contextual insights to prioritize high-impact risks while seamlessly embedding security into developer workflows for resilient, continuous code protection."
“As innovation accelerates cloud and application complexity, Heeler’s ProductDNA provides a scalable and simplified approach to maintaining a holistic, real-time view of SDLC security and lineage with quickly actionable ownership, integrity, and security risk context.“
"Modern software development moves fast, forcing security and engineering teams to constantly reassess application threats. Heeler maps deployments back to source code in real-time creating a contextualized application model. With boundary awareness, Heeler detects material changes, like new APIs, and uses a groundbreaking prioritization model to focus teams on the most urgent, business-critical vulnerabilities."
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“Imagine having the precise DNA of every application in production, allowing you to instantly identify which systems are affected when new vulnerabilities emerge and eliminate false positives that waste valuable time. This visibility transforms security from a reactive fire-fighting exercise into a proactive risk management program.”
Explore our Use Cases
Build customer trust by shifting security left for faster, safer software delivery.
Who is Heeler built for?
Heeler is designed for CISOs, Application Security, Product Security, DevSecOps, and software developers seeking to integrate security into the development process. It offers insights that bridge security and development, helping all stakeholders make faster, risk-informed decisions for cloud-based applications.
Is Heeler suitable for companies of all sizes?
Heeler is ideal for companies of all sizes that run applications in public cloud environments. It’s particularly suited for organizations looking to integrate security into their development process without compromising speed or flexibility.
What environments and tech stacks does Heeler support?
Heeler is optimized for cloud-first environments and supports applications running on AWS, GCP and Azure, using source control management systems like GitHub or GitLab, and development languages like Python, Java, Go, JavaScript and TypeScript. Learn more about our integrations here.
