The "Validated by Coalfire" seal represents that the approved service provider has successfully demonstrated IT control operating effectiveness to industry standards and appropriate regulations or compliance criteria.

Compliance validation is performed using industry recognized standards and best practices. A sample of standards or best practices used in validating compliance results include:

• PCI - Payment Transactions
• FFIEC - Financial Services
• HIPAA - Healthcare
• NERC CIP - Electric Utility
• CobiT - Public Company
• ISO 17799/27002 – Local Government
• NIST 800-53 – Federal Government

Coalfire is an IT Audit and Compliance Management firm that conducts over 1,000 assessments or audits each year. Assessors receive training and certification to industry standards that include CISSP, CISA, QSA, CEGIT, EnCE, and PA-QSA.