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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, announced today that Anne Bayerkohler, director of quality and compliance at Coalfire, has been honored by Consulting Magazine’s Women Leaders in Technology Awards in the Excellence in Leadership category.
April 10, 2020
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Coalfire ISO, the conformity assessment body arm of Coalfire, announced today that it has become one of the world’s first certification bodies to receive accreditation for the auditing and certification of an organization’s Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) per the ISO/IEC 27701:2019 standard (“ISO 27701”).
March 19, 2020
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, announced today that the company has been recognized as a Top Workplace in Atlanta by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).
March 5, 2020
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, announced today that two of its healthcare security specialists, Zach Shales and Arthur Staff, were appointed to the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) CSF® Assessor Council.
March 3, 2020
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, today became the first firm to be accredited by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to perform assessments using the new PCI Software Security Framework.
February 20, 2020
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, today announced that two of its employees who were arrested while conducting a standard penetration test to protect Iowa citizens from cybercrime have been exonerated.
January 30, 2020
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency status. This designation recognizes that Coalfire has demonstrated technical proficiency, deep AWS expertise, and proven success to help customers leverage the power of AWS to protect the public, and prepare, respond, and recover from natural or man-made emergencies and disasters.
December 20, 2019
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Funds advised by Apax Partners (the “Apax Funds”) today announced they have reached an agreement to acquire Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, from The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and The Chertoff Group. The transaction is expected to be completed in early 2020, subject to regulatory approval. Financial terms were not disclosed.
December 13, 2019
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Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, today released its second annual Penetration Risk Report. The research, based on hundreds of engagements performed by the company’s adversarial simulation and penetration testing team, Coalfire Labs, shows that the highest risk factors have flipped from large enterprises to midsized businesses over the last year due to the continuing migration to cloud computing across all public and private sectors.
November 13, 2019