Cofense
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Cofense is the only cybersecurity platform focused exclusively on stopping phishing—the most persistent and evolving cyber threat. Cofense sees and stops email threats missed by standard security measures through expert-supervised AI, combined with real-time intelligence from 35M+ trained users.
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Ideal Customer
- Cofense's sweet spot is large enterprises and Global 1000 organizations with mature security operations centers (SOCs), dedicated security teams, and complex email security ecosystems — including companies with 10,000+ employees that require deep SOC integration.
- The company serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers, including 25% of the Fortune 1000 and reportedly 50% of the Fortune 500, spanning defense, financial services, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing.
Key Differentiators
- Cofense's primary differentiator is its global network of over 35 million trained human reporters — the world's largest active phishing threat reporting network — which it combines with purpose-built, expert-supervised AI to detect and remediate post-perimeter threats missed by traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs).
- Unlike competitors that rely solely on automated gateway filtering, Cofense's 'human-supervised AI' approach delivers what it claims is 99.998% accuracy and sub-minute threat containment (Vision 3.0), with an 8-minute average mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) for managed services.
Industries Served
- Cofense primarily serves Global 1000 enterprises across defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors, with customers including Mastercard, Santander, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Accenture, and Toyota.
- The company also actively serves U.S. federal government agencies, with FedRAMP Moderate Authorization enabling deployments across multiple branches of the U.S. government.
Service Coverage
- Cofense operates globally, serving customers across multiple continents with physical offices in Leesburg, Virginia (HQ), London (UK), Cork (Ireland), Dubai (UAE), Manila (Philippines), and additional remote presence across Asia-Pacific and beyond.
- The company works with customers around the globe, supporting localized content for international teams, and maintains five global Phishing Defense Centers operating 24x7.
Partnerships
- Cofense operates a 100% channel sales model with over 300 partners worldwide, including distributors, resellers, global and regional system integrators, MSSPs, and Technology Alliance Partners (TAP).
- Key technology integrations via its Technology Alliance Program include Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, Splunk SOAR, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, ServiceNow Security Incident Response, Swimlane, ThreatQuotient, and Cisco Security.
Company Size & Ownership
- Cofense was founded in 2011 (originally as PhishMe) by Aaron Higbee and Rohyt Belani and is headquartered in Leesburg/Ashburn, Virginia.
- The company employs approximately 300–500 people across its global offices, with various sources citing figures between 289 and 500 employees as of 2024–2026.
Compliance & Certifications
- Cofense holds FedRAMP Moderate Authorization to Operate (ATO), granted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, making Cofense PhishMe one of the only FedRAMP Moderate-authorized phishing simulation solutions available to federal agencies.
- Cofense completed a SOC 2 Type II examination covering security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy for both Cofense PhishMe and Hosted Cofense Triage.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
7 offeringsCofense Phishing Remediation
AI-driven phishing detection and remediation platform that automatically identifies and remediates entire phishing campaigns reaching inboxes. Uses purpose-built phishing AI trained on real attacks with expert validation for post-perimeter detection. Provides campaign-level detection with less than 1 minute response time.
Cofense Phishing Training
Security awareness training program that uses real-world simulations to train employees to recognize and report phishing threats. Provides multi-channel simulations for email, smishing and vishing with localized content for global teams.
Cofense Platform
Unified phishing defense platform that connects phishing-specific AI, expert insight, and automation. Integrates intelligence, remediation, and training into a post-perimeter defense that continuously learns and adapts.
Cofense Threat Intelligence
Phishing threat intelligence service that leverages real-time intelligence from millions of trained users and billions of real attack data points. Provides collective intelligence signals for earlier detection and more relevant training.
Managed Phishing Defense
Fully managed phishing detection and training program operated by Cofense experts. Extends security teams by providing end-to-end phishing defense without operational overhead, delivering 5x ROI.
Managed Phishing Remediation
Managed service where Cofense analysts handle abuse inbox management, investigate user-reported threats, and contain real attacks. Provides 8-minute average MTTR with 99.998% accuracy from expert-supervised AI.
Managed Phishing Training
Fully managed phishing training program where Cofense handles scenario design, deployment, and reporting. Builds behavioral change through realistic simulations and provides executive summaries and board-level insights.
Considering Cofense?
Our team will work with you to determine if Cofense is the right fit for your organization. From research and assessment through procurement negotiation and ongoing vendor management — we handle the entire process at no cost to you.