Today, we're launching Heelr.
Heelr is a cybersecurity services marketplace built to help companies find trusted security expertise, and to give cybersecurity professionals and providers a dedicated place to offer it.
Because finding someone to help with cybersecurity should not be a security challenge in itself.
Finding the right cybersecurity expertise is harder than it should be
The cybersecurity industry has no shortage of expertise.
There are brilliant independent consultants, specialist boutiques, established service providers, and people with incredibly deep knowledge of specific technologies, threats, regulations, and environments.
The difficult part is finding the right one.
A company might need a penetration test ahead of a customer deadline. A SaaS business might need help getting through its first security review. A family office might need an independent assessment of risks across a complicated mix of people, devices, homes, and businesses. A team building with AI might suddenly realise it needs expertise it does not have internally.
Today, finding that expertise can mean searching Google, asking around your network, posting on LinkedIn, working through consultancy directories, or turning to a generic freelance marketplace.
None of those were built specifically for cybersecurity.
So we built Heelr.
What is Heelr?
Heelr is a marketplace dedicated to cybersecurity services.
Companies can use Heelr to find providers across areas including:
- Penetration testing
- GRC and compliance
- Application security
- Cloud security
- Incident response
- Vulnerability management
- Security for AI
- Security assessments
- Cybersecurity strategy and advisory
- Managed security services
And because cybersecurity is an enormous field, Heelr is designed to help buyers get closer to the specific expertise they actually need, rather than treating "cybersecurity" as a single interchangeable skill.
Built around trust
Trust matters in any professional services marketplace.
In cybersecurity, the stakes are considerably higher.
You may be giving someone access to sensitive systems, sharing details about vulnerabilities, discussing incidents, exposing internal architecture, or asking them to test the defences protecting your organisation.
That makes identity, expertise, and reputation fundamental to how Heelr works.
Heelr is connected to Cyberr, our professional network for cybersecurity, where identity verification, credentials, professional profiles, and recommendations help people demonstrate who they are and what they know.
We're bringing that trust foundation into the way cybersecurity services are discovered through Heelr.
A new route to market for cybersecurity experts
Heelr is also built for the people providing the expertise.
Independent consultants and cybersecurity companies often face the same problem from the opposite direction: being excellent at security does not automatically make you excellent at finding customers.
Generic freelance platforms can turn specialist expertise into a race around price. Traditional directories can give buyers little more than a company name, a logo, and a category.
We think cybersecurity deserves something more useful.
Heelr gives cybersecurity professionals and providers a dedicated place to show what they do and connect with companies actively looking for security expertise.
For independent consultants, Cyberr members with Premium can create a Heelr provider profile once they have completed identity verification.
Cybersecurity companies and service providers can also join Heelr through dedicated provider plans.
Why Cyberr built Heelr
When we created Cyberr, the idea was bigger than building another place to post about cybersecurity.
We wanted to build professional infrastructure specifically for this industry.
A place where cybersecurity people can build their professional identity, demonstrate expertise, make meaningful connections, and discover opportunities.
Heelr extends that idea.
Cyberr connects the cybersecurity community.
Heelr creates a dedicated marketplace where companies can find expertise from within that world.
Together, they give us the opportunity to build something cybersecurity has been missing: an ecosystem designed around the people who actually work in it.
Heelr starts today
Today is day one.
We'll be learning from the companies using Heelr to find expertise, the independent consultants building their businesses through it, and the cybersecurity providers joining the marketplace.
We'll use that feedback to shape what comes next.
For now, the doors are open.
If you're looking for cybersecurity expertise, come and find it.
If you have cybersecurity expertise to offer, come and show us what you can do.
