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Conducting a gap analysis helps you meet cybersecurity goals and reduce risk to acceptable levels – but only if it’s done in a way that properly balances business needs, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Remediate controls and close gaps across your cybersecurity program

No matter where you are on the maturity model, we can help you progress from your current state to your target state.

Alternatively, if you’re a CIO or CISO and need the staff and expertise to handle your control, design, implementation, or testing projects, we can help. Our cyber advisory services include risk management; governance, compliance, and assurance; security organization and technology; third-party risk; threat and vulnerability management; and cyber breach services.

Our comprehensive services include:

Gap identification
Control design and selection:
- If procedural and administrative controls need remediation, we analyze requirements, bring templates and best practices to bear, customize, and implement.
- If technical controls need remediation, we analyze requirements, evaluate alternatives (vendor selection process), and develop recommendations.
Control implementation, including configuration and training
Control testing and assurance

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Why Coalfire for your gap advisory?

Since our founding in 2001, Coalfire has established itself as a pure-play, vendor-neutral cybersecurity advisory firm serving as a trusted advisor to executives, legal counsel, compliance managers and security practitioners across numerous industries.
We are skilled communicators who present our findings in business terms for truly actionable insights.

Every project is led by a credentialed, industry-savvy senior director and supported by consultants armed with the methodologies, proven proprietary frameworks, insights and know-how.
We help you simplify your compliance processes by getting to know your business, helping you understand the regulations, and leveraging efforts across different frameworks.

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Industries
While cybersecurity is a priority for enterprises worldwide, requirements differ greatly from one industry to the next. Coalfire understands industry nuances; we work with leading organizations in the cloud and technology, financial services, government, healthcare, and retail markets.

Coalfire can help cloud service providers prioritize the cyber risks to the company, and find the right cyber risk management and compliance efforts that keeps customer data secure, and helps differentiate products.

"Success" at a government entity looks different at a commercial organization. Create cybersecurity solutions to support your mission goals with a team that understands your unique requirements.

The financial services industry was built upon security and privacy. As cyber-attacks become more sophisticated, a strong vault and a guard at the door won’t offer any protection against phishing, DDoS attacks and IT infrastructure breaches.

The continuum of care is a concept involving an integrated system of care that guides and tracks patients over time through a comprehensive array of health services spanning all levels of care. Interoperability is the central idea to this care continuum making it possible to have the right information at the right time for the right people to make the right decisions.

Maintaining network and data security in any large organization is a major challenge for information systems departments. However, in the higher education environment, the protection of IT assets and sensitive information must be balanced with the need for ‘openness’ and academic freedom; making this a more difficult and complex task.

When it comes to cyber threats, the hospitality industry is not a friendly place. Hotels and resorts have proven to be a favorite target for cyber criminals who are looking for high transaction volume, large databases and low barriers to entry.

The global retail industry has become the top target for cyber terrorists, and the impact of this onslaught has been staggering to merchants. To secure the complex IT infrastructure of a retail environment, merchants must embrace enterprise-wide cyber risk management practices that reduces risk, minimizes costs and provides security to their customers and their bottom line.

Private enterprises serving government and state agencies need to be upheld to the same information management practices and standards as the organizations they serve. Coalfire has over 16 years of experience helping companies navigate increasing complex governance and risk standards for public institutions and their IT vendors.

Technology innovations are enabling new methods for corporations and governments to operate and driving changes in consumer behavior. The companies delivering these technology products are facilitating business transformation that provides new operating models, increased efficiency and engagement with consumers as businesses seek a competitive advantage.

Cybersecurity has entered the list of the top five concerns for U.S. electric utilities, and with good reason. According to the Department of Homeland Security, attacks on the utilities industry are rising "at an alarming rate".
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Since 2001, Coalfire has worked at the cutting edge of technology to help public and private sector organizations solve their toughest cybersecurity problems and fuel their overall success.

Coalfire helps organizations comply with global financial, government, industry and healthcare mandates while helping build the IT infrastructure and security systems that will protect their business from security breaches and data theft. The company is a leading provider of IT advisory services for security in retail, payments, healthcare, financial services, higher education, hospitality, government and utilities.

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Coalfire’s executive leadership team comprises some of the most knowledgeable professionals in cybersecurity, representing many decades of experience leading and developing teams to outperform in meeting the security challenges of commercial and government clients. With diverse backgrounds in IT systems security, governmental security, compliance, and reducing risk while implementing the latest enabling technologies (such as the Cloud and IoT), our leaders understand the challenges customers face.

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Created in honor of the late co-founder of Coalfire, the Richard E. Dakin Fund at The Denver Foundation is supporting scholarship programs at several universities for promising college students studying cybersecurity and related fields.

The Coalfire Research and Development (R&D) team creates cutting-edge, open-source security tools that provide our clients with more realistic adversary simulations and advance operational tradecraft for the security industry.
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