CrowdStrike has announced new CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management innovations, accelerating cybersecurity consolidation by eliminating outdated vulnerability management tools and extending artificial intelligence (AI)-powered risk prioritisation to network assets. The general availability of the Network Vulnerability Assessment capability enables security teams to identify and remediate high-risk vulnerabilities in network devices, including routers, switches and firewalls, in real time—without additional scanners, agents or hardware.
The single-agent architecture of the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform empowers organisations to replace legacy vulnerability management tools with a single click, consolidating security operations on the Falcon platform and modernising static, CVSS-based risk models with an adversary-driven approach. Falcon Exposure Management customers receive free scanning for up to 10% of assets to immediately experience the benefits of AI-powered, platform-driven exposure management.
“Network scanning is a staple in virtually every security stack, and bringing it to the Falcon platform—and replacing legacy solutions—is one of our top customer demands,” said Elia Zaitsev, the chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. “For too long, organisations have had to rely on hardware-dependent, difficult-to-deploy solutions with outdated risk models and static CVSS scores, requiring external threat feeds to even attempt prioritisation. With the Falcon platform, everything is built in natively—the industry’s richest adversary intelligence, patented AI, and a lightweight agent adapted as a network scanner—allowing teams to extend adversary-based risk mitigation to network devices with a single click, meeting the demand for even greater consolidation on CrowdStrike.”
As adversaries evolve, traditional vulnerability management tools fail to address modern risk, missing how adversaries chain vulnerabilities together in real-world attacks. The 2025 CrowdStrike Global Threat report reveals that attackers increasingly exploit multiple low/medium vulnerabilities in sequence to escalate privileges and execute remote code, bypassing traditional risk prioritisation models. Legacy scanning solutions lack the native threat intelligence and advanced AI capabilities to correlate vulnerabilities with real-world attack techniques. They also require dedicated agents and hardware, creating operational complexity without delivering true risk reduction. As a result, security teams are overwhelmed with static CVSS scores that fail to reflect how an adversary targets their attack surface, leaving critical gaps in exposure management.
Falcon Exposure Management prioritises vulnerabilities based on adversary activity and real-world attack paths, allowing security teams to identify and mitigate risks before they lead to a breach. By understanding how attackers exploit multiple vulnerabilities in sequence, teams can reduce critical vulnerabilities by up to 98%. With Network Vulnerability Assessment, CrowdStrike extends these capabilities to assets discovered over the network, providing comprehensive risk visibility, prioritisation and automated remediation across the entire attack surface, without requiring additional scanners, agents or hardware. This brings another crucial aspect of modern security to the Falcon platform, helping organisations accelerate consolidation and eliminate the costs and complexity of managing numerous disjointed tools.
Key features and benefits include:
- Real-time, continuous network assessments: Eliminates reliance on outdated network scanning tools that create security blind spots. The Falcon platform uses its existing lightweight agent as a network scanner, enabling instant, continuous assessments with no additional setup—providing real-time visibility into both managed and unmanaged network devices without causing congestion or disruptions.
- AI-driven risk prioritisation: Falcon Exposure Management’s patented ExPRT.AI pinpoints the 5% of vulnerabilities driving 95% of risk. By analysing adversary behaviour, active exploits, and real-world threat intelligence, organisations can focus on the risks that matter most.
- Cross-domain exposure management: Provides a single, consolidated view of exposures and attack paths across endpoints, cloud workloads, IT/IoT and network assets leading to business-critical assets and data, enabling teams to predict likely adversary behaviour based on real-world activity to harden high-risk areas of exposure.
- Automated remediation with Falcon Fusion SOAR: Traditional scanning tools leave teams burdened with manual remediation. Falcon Exposure Management, combined with Falcon Fusion SOAR, delivers automated, real-time remediation—eliminating risks before they can be exploited.
- Unified platform protection: The combination of Falcon Exposure Management’s proactive security with the Falcon platform’s threat prevention, detection and response across endpoints, cloud, identity and data, along with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR, provides organisations with the technology and services they need for full cycle threat protection across every area of enterprise risk.
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