Scaling Threat Modeling in the Age of AI Coding Assistants

Speaaker: Christopher Hertz from Heeler.

As AI coding tools accelerate software development, security teams face a daunting challenge: how to keep pace without scaling headcount. In this talk, Heeler Co-Founder & CEO Christopher Hertz explores how traditional threat modeling is falling behind in the age of AI-assisted development—and why the shift to runtime threat modeling is critical for the future of AppSec. Drawing on real-world data and forward-looking insights, this session introduces a new approach to context-aware security reviews that prioritize exploitability, fixability, and continuous adaptation across complex, fast-moving ephemeral cloud systems.