Coalfire absorbs app security firm

WESTMINSTER — Coalfire Systems Inc., a Westminster cybersecurity firm, has acquired San Antonio, Texas-based application security technology company Denim Group, Coalfire’s second such deal since April.

Denim is the developer of ThreadFix, an application security orchestration and correlation platform. The company also provides consulting services.

“Agile development methods are rapidly changing time to market expectations and increasing frequency of release cycles, yet clients are challenged by how to rationalize the volume of application and cloud vulnerabilities generated from disparate testing tools,” Coalfire chief operating officer Mark Carney said in a company news release. “Our approach leverages advanced consulting services combined with the…