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Coalfire is a cybersecurity and compliance services firm delivering advisory, assessment, and security offerings to help organizations achieve and maintain regulatory certifications.

Overview

Coalfire Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity and compliance services company that helps organizations manage risk and meet regulatory requirements through advisory, assessment, and security services. Its scope includes government and enterprise clients across federal and commercial sectors, spanning frameworks such as FedRAMP, CMMC, HITRUST, PCI, ISO, SOC, and HIPAA. The company offers strategic governance guidance, security assessments, threat-focused security services, and risk and compliance management. It supports continuous compliance and audit readiness across more than 100 frameworks through scalable platforms and services. Coalfire serves industries including government, financial services, healthcare, technology, and other highly regulated sectors, enabling clients to accelerate secure digital initiatives while meeting regulatory obligations.

Mission statement

To help organizations navigate regulatory landscapes and safeguard their information assets through trusted advisory, rigorous assessments, and security engineering.

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What we offer

Compliance Essentials

Streamline compliance assessments across 100+ frameworks with reduced manual effort.

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Attack Surface Management

Gain Comprehensive Visibility And Proactively Discover External Attack Surfaces.

Exposure Management

Gain full visibility and prioritize risk through threat-informed exposure management.

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RAMPpak

Enhances FedRAMP readiness with structured guidance and documentation support.

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DivisionHex

Service

Hunt AI-driven risks that traditional security fails to detect.

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PCI DSS Compliance Services

Service

Streamline PCI DSS Compliance for Enhanced Security and Trust.

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FedRAMP Cyber Advisory Services

Service

Achieve faster FedRAMP ATO through expert guidance and tailored compliance strategies.

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AI Risk Management Services

Service

Navigate AI risks with expert guidance, ensuring compliance and security in evolving technologies.

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AI/ML Offensive Security Services

Service

Proactively secure AI/ML systems by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities through targeted offensive testing.

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Application Threat Modeling

Service

Identify and manage security threats throughout your application's lifecycle.

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Market segments

Market size by segment

Growth potential (CAGR)

AI risk governance and assurance

0.6 Billion USD30% CAGR

Services that establish governance, risk frameworks, readiness assessments, and continuous monitoring to manage AI-related operational, security, and regulatory risk.

Products: AI Risk Management Services

Adversarial testing and threat modeling

1.5 Billion USD25% CAGR

Offensive testing, red-team assessments, and threat modeling applied to applications and AI/ML systems to identify vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation guidance.

Products: AI/ML Offensive Security Services, Application Threat Modeling

Compliance, audit, and certification management

8.61 Billion USD6.2% CAGR

End-to-end compliance program management, audit readiness, automated evidence collection, and certification support across frameworks such as FedRAMP and PCI DSS.

Products: Compliance Essentials, FedRAMP Cyber Advisory Services, PCI DSS Compliance Services, RAMPpak

Attack surface and exposure management

2.5 Billion USD25% CAGR

Continuous discovery, mapping, and prioritization of external and internal assets and exposures using threat intelligence to reduce attack surface and unknown-asset risk.

Products: Attack Surface Management, Exposure Management

Managed detection, threat hunting, and response

4.5 Billion USD15.2% CAGR

Intelligence-driven, continuous monitoring, proactive threat hunting, and rapid response services to detect and contain threats across environments.

Products: DivisionHex

More information about our offering

Compliance Essentials

Coalfire Compliance Essentials is a SaaS platform to manage complex compliance programs and audit cycles. The platform incorporates over 20 years of compliance advisory and audit expertise, providing continuous visibility into changing controls and evidence requirements.

  • Coordinate Across Frameworks
    Streamline audit processes by integrating efforts across over 100 regulatory frameworks.
  • Ensure Continuous Visibility
    Monitor and adapt to evolving compliance demands with real-time insights.
  • Automate Evidence Gathering
    Save time and diminish human error with integrated automation for collecting compliance evidence.
  • Achieve Audit Readiness
    Maintain constant audit readiness, making compliance processes smooth and efficient.
  • Enhance Risk Mitigation
    Proactively manage risks to improve compliance stability and resilience.
  • Leverage Extensive Expertise
    Utilize proven governance strategies informed by years of sector-specific experience.

Attack Surface Management

Attack Surface Management (ASM) is a product powered by Tenable One that provides comprehensive visibility and proactive discovery of your external attack surface.

  • Gain Visibility Across Your Attack Surface
    Ensure awareness of all external assets and vulnerabilities to better manage security posture.
  • Utilize Advanced Exposure Management
    Harness the power of Tenable One to improve risk assessment and management for external threats.
  • Enable Real-time Risk Management
    Continuously track and assess risks to maintain an effective security posture.
  • Focus On Critical Vulnerabilities
    Leverage threat intelligence to prioritize vulnerabilities that pose the highest risk to your organization.
  • Automatically Discover External Assets
    Identify and evaluate external assets to ensure comprehensive security coverage and minimize vulnerabilities.

Exposure Management

Exposure Management is a Coalfire offering that provides a threat-informed approach to identify unknown assets, maximize discovery, and prioritize risks using real-world threat intelligence.

  • Contextualize and Prioritize Risks
    Utilize real-world threat intelligence to focus on the most critical vulnerabilities and threats to your organization.
  • Identify Unknown Assets
    Reveal hidden assets that could pose risks, ensuring comprehensive security management.
  • Expose How AI Tools Interact
    Understand how various AI tools interact with your organization’s systems and where vulnerabilities may exist.
  • Maximize Discovery Efforts
    Enhance your organization's understanding of unknown assets to effectively manage security risks.
  • Identify Excessive Permissions
    Evaluate authorization risks across OAuth, APIs, and service accounts to ensure secure access management.
  • Identify Security Gaps
    Discover where your current security tools may lack visibility into AI activities and expose potential risks.

RAMPpak

RAMPpak is a readiness toolset for FedRAMP authorization, offering a readiness checklist and documentation guidance aligned with FedRAMP 20x and classic models. It facilitates the process of navigating compliance requirements for cloud service providers, ensuring they meet necessary security standards efficiently.

  • Streamlines Documentation Process
    Facilitates compliance documentation to meet both traditional FedRAMP and emerging 20x standards, ensuring a smoother authorization process.
  • Prepares Necessary Evidence
    Aids organizations in gathering and organizing evidence required for compliance audits, reducing the risk of oversight during assessments.
  • Ensures Comprehensive Readiness
    Offers a step-by-step checklist that guides organizations through the essential tasks and documentation needed for FedRAMP authorization.

DivisionHex

DivisionHex delivers continuous, intelligence-driven managed security services that monitor, defend, and adapt faster than evolving threats. It integrates exposure management and real-time intelligence for proactive protection.

  • Ensures Proactive Security
    This feature provides constant surveillance to identify and respond to threats in real-time, ensuring a robust defense against emerging risks.
  • Addresses Threats Before They Escalate
    With swift response tactics, this feature allows for immediate action against potential threats, minimizing damage and downtime.
  • Identifies Critical AI Vulnerabilities
    Through specialized threat hunting techniques, DivisionHex discovers and mitigates the unique risks introduced by unauthorized AI applications, ensuring comprehensive security.
  • Detects Hidden Threats
    By monitoring cyber intelligence on the dark web, this feature enables early detection of potential security breaches and compromised data.
  • Streamlines Risk Mitigation
    This integration simplifies the identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities, enhancing the overall security posture of your organization.

PCI DSS Compliance Services

PCI DSS Compliance Services help organizations achieve and maintain payment card industry security standards, including Level 1 assessments, SAQ facilitation, self-assessment, penetration testing, and ROC delivery. Coalfire leverages over 15 years of experience to streamline compliance processes, ensuring a thorough understanding of PCI DSS requirements for clients across various sectors.

  • Ensure Comprehensive Assessments
    Expert assessors conduct thorough PCI Level 1 assessments, identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with the highest industry standards.
  • Identify Vulnerabilities Proactively
    This feature allows organizations to uncover and address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, ensuring a robust security posture.
  • Receive Validated Compliance Reports
    Clients receive an official Report on Compliance, developed by certified assessors, to demonstrate their compliance status to stakeholders.
  • Achieve Compliance Validation Efficiently
    This feature enables clients to validate their compliance efficiently through guided attestations, reducing the administrative burden and streamlining the self-assessment process.
  • Streamline SAQ Submission Process
    This service helps clients navigate the complexities of submitting their Self-Assessment Questionnaire, ensuring a smoother and more effective compliance process.

FedRAMP Cyber Advisory Services

FedRAMP Cyber Advisory Services deliver end-to-end FedRAMP support, including strategy, readiness, 3PAO audit preparation, and documentation aligned to DoD and FedRAMP requirements (including 20x).

  • Create Audit-Ready Documentation
    Ensure the documentation meets Defensible standards for rigorous 3PAO review, paving the way for successful authorization.
  • Streamline Your ATO Process
    Navigates assessments smoothly with expert insights and strategic planning, minimizing surprises during the audit.
  • Ensure Defensible Evidence
    Guarantees that the body of evidence supports successful outcomes in the assessment process.
  • Enable Scalable Compliance
    Facilitates a comprehensive FedRAMP strategy, ensuring your organization is prepared for ongoing compliance and security needs.
  • Create Future-Ready Compliance
    Establishes a framework that facilitates ongoing compliance beyond initial authorization, adapting to evolving requirements.
  • Integrate with Emerging Standards
    Ensures that your organization consistently meets new compliance benchmarks, enhancing security and operational efficiency.

AI Risk Management Services

AI Risk Management Services deliver leadership and assurance for managing risks associated with artificial intelligence, offering governance guidance and ongoing risk mitigation aligned to evolving AI technologies.

  • Enhances Risk Management Approaches
    Continually updates strategies to reflect real-time changes in AI technology and associated risks.
  • Leads Governance Efforts
    Ensures organizations have the necessary leadership and guidance to manage the complexities of AI risks effectively.
  • Establishes Governance Frameworks
    Designs and implements governance structures to help organizations comply with regulatory requirements and best practices related to AI.
  • Assesses AI Implementation Gaps
    Identifies vulnerabilities and areas needing improvement before deploying AI solutions to mitigate risks.
  • Implements Real-Time Monitoring
    Uses advanced tools to detect anomalies and risks associated with AI operations continuously.

AI/ML Offensive Security Services

AI/ML Offensive Security Services provide targeted offensive testing and evaluation of AI/ML systems to identify vulnerabilities and guide remediation, focusing on proactive security measures in alignment with industry standards.

  • Improve Security Posture
    This feature enhances the security posture of AI/ML applications by identifying and addressing implementation vulnerabilities.
  • Mitigate Security Gaps
    This feature allows organizations to close security gaps in their AI/ML implementations through detailed vulnerability assessments.
  • Identify Risks Early
    Provides early identification of risks associated with AI/ML systems, enabling organizations to address potential threats before they materialize.
  • Strengthen Defense Mechanisms
    Through realistic attack scenarios, this feature helps strengthen the defenses of AI-driven applications.
  • Enhance Compliance
    Organizations can ensure their AI setups meet compliance requirements, reducing risk and fostering trust.

Application Threat Modeling

Application Threat Modeling helps identify and mitigate threats across the entire application lifecycle, from design through deployment.

  • Identify and Mitigate Threats
    Provides actionable insights to detect potential security threats and deploy effective countermeasures proactively.
  • Comprehensive Threat Coverage
    Ensures continuous assessment of threats throughout the application's lifecycle, adapting to evolving security challenges.
  • Mitigate Threats Early
    By addressing threats during the design phase, the overall security posture of the application is significantly enhanced.
  • Standardized Approach
    Ensures a risk-based approach to security that meets industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Sources

Methodology and sourcing behind the figures and links shown above.

AI risk governance and assurance

Search results show published AI governance / assurance market estimates ranging from roughly USD 0.34–2.62 billion in the mid-2020s and reported CAGRs between ~24.8% and ~38.5% (with higher outliers). Using those primary sources, I select a conservative midpoint market size of about USD 0.6 billion (circa 2025/2026) and a growth potential of ~30% CAGR based on the cluster of published CAGRs in the 25–40% range.

Adversarial testing and threat modeling

Estimate grounded on automated breach & attack simulation (ABAS) as the closest direct proxy (2025 size ~$0.76B, very high CAGR), plus adjacent markets (generative-AI cybersecurity, threat intelligence, threat hunting, AI-driven threat intelligence) showing strong adoption and high teens-to-30%+ CAGRs. Combining ABAS (~0.76B) with global demand for red-team/pen-testing and adversarial ML testing (services and tooling) yields an estimated ~US$1.5B current addressable market for adversarial testing & threat modeling, and a blended CAGR ~25% reflecting rapid growth in ABAS (32.6%), generative-AI security (~24–25%), and elevated growth in threat-intelligence/threat-hunting segments (15–23%).

Compliance, audit, and certification management

Primary estimate uses the Compliance Management Services market sizing in the provided search results (WiseGuyReports) because it directly matches the requested segment (compliance, audit, certification support). That report values the market at USD 8.61B (2025) with a 6.2% CAGR. Broader quality-and-compliance markets (FutureMarketInsights) report a larger combined market (USD 31.9B in 2025, CAGR 9.3%), and other CMS-focused forecasts show higher CAGRs (e.g., 12.9%), indicating range variability; for the focused compliance/audit/certification services segment, the WiseGuy figure is the closest direct match, so 8.61B and 6.2% CAGR are used.

Attack surface and exposure management

Estimate blends ASM- and exposure-management-specific reports (SNSInsider: exposure management USD 1.99B in 2023; KBV Research: ASM USD 0.7315B in 2023) and published ASM forecasts showing high growth (18–30% CAGR). Grand View Research’s larger security & vulnerability management market ($17.6B in 2025, 7% CAGR) was used as an upper-layer benchmark. Given overlap across reports and market definitions, the combined narrow segment (attack surface + exposure management) is estimated ~USD 2.5B (current) with strong growth potential (~25% CAGR) consistent with specialist-market forecasts.

Managed detection, threat hunting, and response

Estimate based on MDR-focused market reports in the search results. A marketsizeandtrends report explicitly places the Managed Detection and Response market at USD 4.5 billion in 2024 with a 15.2% CAGR to 2033; an independent Delvens report shows a similar high-growth MDR CAGR (~16.1%), while a broader Threat Detection and Response market report (WiseGuy) values the overall category at ~USD 30.6B (2024), supporting that MDR is a mid-single-digit-billion subset of the larger detection/response market. I used the MDR-specific 4.5B base and the 15.2% MDR CAGR as the primary inputs, with other reports as corroboration.

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