Coalfire AI Operations
https://coalfire.com/services/advisory/ai-security-and-trust-engineering
Coalfire is the largest specialist-cybersecurity-services firm in the FedRAMP/PCI/HITRUST space. Apax Partners acquired majority stake 2020. Launched AI-augmented assessment services 2024 — pentest + audit workpaper automation. On 2026-05-05 Coalfire launched Audit AI in its Compliance Essentials platform, letting customers' AI agents work on live compliance data via MCP and open APIs; AI agent services for security operations (LegionAI) now sit under Coalfire AI Security and Trust Engineering.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 15 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2001 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
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- License
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- GitHub
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- Pricing
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- Funding
- Apax majority-acquired 2020 vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: cyber-services with AI-augmented audit/pentest
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Largest FedRAMP 3PAO; gov-grade pedigree; services-DNA gives consultative AI assist.
Cons
Services + AI hybrid; the AI features are augmentation not standalone product; competes with services-first vs SaaS-first peers.
Claims & capabilities
Coalfire: Apax-acquired 2020; largest FedRAMP 3PAO; AI-augmented service 2024
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
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- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (14 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Cyber-services firm with AI-assisted compliance/pentest vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Coalfire is the largest specialist-cybersecurity-services firm in the FedRAMP/PCI/HITRUS… vendor
- Claims / benefits Coalfire: Apax-acquired 2020; largest FedRAMP 3PAO; AI-augmented service 2024 vendor
- Created 2001 (founded) vendor
- Funding Apax majority-acquired 2020 vendor
- Customers / scale Federal + Fortune 500 vendor
- HQ Westminster, CO vendor
- Founders / pedigree Coalfire (Tom McAndrew CEO) vendor
- Optimised for cyber-services with AI-augmented audit/pentest vendor
- Pros Largest FedRAMP 3PAO; gov-grade pedigree; services-DNA gives consultative AI assist. vendor
- Cons Services + AI hybrid; the AI features are augmentation not standalone product; competes … vendor
- Project & sources www.coalfire.com/services/managed-services/aiops vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.coalfire.com/services/managed-services/aiops” → “https://coalfire.com/services/advisory/ai-security-and-trust-engineering”
Related systems
References (1)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) depends on at runtime — On 2026-05-05 Coalfire launched Audit AI in its Compliance Essentials platform, letting customers' AI agents work on live compliance data via MCP and open APIs