CrowdStrike Accelerates Cybersecurity Consolidation with AI-Powered Network Vulnerability Assessment for Falcon Exposure Management
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has announced significant enhancements to its Falcon Exposure Management platform with the introduction of Network Vulnerability Assessment capabilities. This new feature enables real-time identification and remediation of vulnerabilities in network devices without requiring additional scanners, agents, or hardware.
The platform leverages AI-powered risk prioritization and extends to network assets, allowing organizations to replace legacy vulnerability management tools with a single-click solution. A key highlight is that Falcon Exposure Management customers can assess up to 10% of their assets at no cost.
The solution's ExPRT.AI technology identifies the critical 5% of vulnerabilities that drive 95% of risk, analyzing adversary behavior, active exploits, and threat intelligence. The platform offers automated remediation through Falcon Fusion SOAR and provides comprehensive visibility across endpoints, cloud workloads, IT/IoT, and network assets.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) ha annunciato significativi miglioramenti alla sua piattaforma Falcon Exposure Management con l'introduzione delle capacità di Valutazione delle Vulnerabilità di Rete. Questa nuova funzionalità consente l'identificazione e la risoluzione in tempo reale delle vulnerabilità nei dispositivi di rete senza richiedere scanner, agenti o hardware aggiuntivi.
La piattaforma sfrutta la prioritizzazione del rischio basata sull'IA e si estende agli asset di rete, consentendo alle organizzazioni di sostituire gli strumenti di gestione delle vulnerabilità legacy con una soluzione a un clic. Un punto saliente è che i clienti di Falcon Exposure Management possono valutare fino al 10% dei loro asset senza alcun costo.
La tecnologia ExPRT.AI della soluzione identifica il 5% critico delle vulnerabilità che generano il 95% del rischio, analizzando il comportamento degli avversari, gli exploit attivi e le informazioni sulle minacce. La piattaforma offre remediation automatizzata tramite Falcon Fusion SOAR e fornisce una visibilità completa su endpoint, carichi di lavoro nel cloud, IT/IoT e asset di rete.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) ha anunciado mejoras significativas en su plataforma Falcon Exposure Management con la introducción de capacidades de Evaluación de Vulnerabilidades de Red. Esta nueva función permite la identificación y remediación en tiempo real de vulnerabilidades en dispositivos de red sin necesidad de escáneres, agentes o hardware adicionales.
La plataforma aprovecha la priorización de riesgos impulsada por IA y se extiende a los activos de red, permitiendo a las organizaciones reemplazar las herramientas de gestión de vulnerabilidades heredadas con una solución de un clic. Un aspecto destacado es que los clientes de Falcon Exposure Management pueden evaluar hasta el 10% de sus activos sin costo alguno.
La tecnología ExPRT.AI de la solución identifica el 5% crítico de las vulnerabilidades que generan el 95% del riesgo, analizando el comportamiento de los adversarios, los exploits activos y la inteligencia de amenazas. La plataforma ofrece remediación automatizada a través de Falcon Fusion SOAR y proporciona visibilidad integral a través de endpoints, cargas de trabajo en la nube, TI/IoT y activos de red.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD)는 네트워크 취약점 평가 기능을 도입하여 Falcon Exposure Management 플랫폼에 중요한 개선 사항을 발표했습니다. 이 새로운 기능은 추가 스캐너, 에이전트 또는 하드웨어 없이 네트워크 장치의 취약점을 실시간으로 식별하고 수정할 수 있게 해줍니다.
이 플랫폼은 AI 기반의 위험 우선 순위 지정을 활용하고 네트워크 자산으로 확장되어 조직이 기존의 취약점 관리 도구를 클릭 한 번으로 대체할 수 있도록 합니다. 주요 하이라이트는 Falcon Exposure Management 고객이 비용 없이 최대 10%의 자산을 평가할 수 있다는 점입니다.
해당 솔루션의 ExPRT.AI 기술은 95%의 위험을 유발하는 중요한 5%의 취약점을 식별하며, 적의 행동, 활성 익스플로잇 및 위협 정보를 분석합니다. 이 플랫폼은 Falcon Fusion SOAR를 통해 자동화된 수정 작업을 제공하며, 엔드포인트, 클라우드 워크로드, IT/IoT 및 네트워크 자산 전반에 걸쳐 포괄적인 가시성을 제공합니다.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) a annoncé des améliorations significatives à sa plateforme Falcon Exposure Management avec l'introduction de capacités d'Évaluation des Vulnérabilités Réseau. Cette nouvelle fonctionnalité permet l'identification et la remédiation en temps réel des vulnérabilités dans les dispositifs réseau sans nécessiter de scanners, d'agents ou de matériel supplémentaires.
La plateforme tire parti de la priorisation des risques alimentée par l'IA et s'étend aux actifs réseau, permettant aux organisations de remplacer les outils de gestion des vulnérabilités hérités par une solution en un clic. Un point clé est que les clients de Falcon Exposure Management peuvent évaluer jusqu'à 10 % de leurs actifs sans frais.
La technologie ExPRT.AI de la solution identifie les 5 % critiques des vulnérabilités qui représentent 95 % du risque, en analysant le comportement des adversaires, les exploits actifs et les renseignements sur les menaces. La plateforme offre une remédiation automatisée via Falcon Fusion SOAR et fournit une visibilité complète sur les points de terminaison, les charges de travail cloud, l'IT/IoT et les actifs réseau.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) hat bedeutende Verbesserungen an seiner Falcon Exposure Management-Plattform mit der Einführung von Netzwerksicherheitsbewertung-Funktionen angekündigt. Diese neue Funktion ermöglicht die Echtzeitidentifizierung und -behebung von Schwachstellen in Netzwerkgeräten, ohne dass zusätzliche Scanner, Agenten oder Hardware erforderlich sind.
Die Plattform nutzt KI-gestützte Risikopriorisierung und erstreckt sich auf Netzwerkanlagen, sodass Organisationen veraltete Schwachstellenmanagement-Tools durch eine Ein-Klick-Lösung ersetzen können. Ein wichtiger Punkt ist, dass Kunden von Falcon Exposure Management bis zu 10% ihrer Anlagen kostenlos bewerten können.
Die Technologie ExPRT.AI der Lösung identifiziert die kritischen 5% der Schwachstellen, die 95% des Risikos ausmachen, indem sie das Verhalten von Angreifern, aktive Exploits und Bedrohungsinformationen analysiert. Die Plattform bietet automatisierte Behebung über Falcon Fusion SOAR und bietet umfassende Sichtbarkeit über Endpunkte, Cloud-Workloads, IT/IoT und Netzwerkressourcen.
- Platform expansion enables revenue growth through legacy tool replacement
- Free 10% asset scanning offer could drive customer adoption
- AI-powered technology reduces critical vulnerabilities by up to 98%
- No additional hardware requirements reduces implementation costs
- Free tier to only 10% of assets may restrict initial adoption
Insights
CrowdStrike's integration of Network Vulnerability Assessment into its Falcon platform represents a strategic product expansion that strengthens the company's competitive position in the cybersecurity market. By extending their AI-powered risk prioritization to network assets, CrowdStrike is addressing a crucial gap in traditional vulnerability management approaches.
The announcement demonstrates how CrowdStrike is executing on its platform consolidation strategy - a key differentiator in the increasingly fragmented cybersecurity market. By enabling customers to eliminate standalone vulnerability scanning tools with a single click, the company is reducing complexity while potentially increasing their share of customer security budgets.
What makes this capability particularly valuable is the shift from static CVSS-based risk models to adversary-focused prioritization. Traditional vulnerability scanners overwhelm security teams with thousands of vulnerabilities without effective prioritization. CrowdStrike's approach of correlating vulnerabilities with actual attack techniques provides significantly more actionable intelligence.
The go-to-market strategy is also notable - offering free scanning for 10% of assets creates a frictionless adoption path that could accelerate displacement of legacy tools. This represents a classic 'land and expand' approach that has proven effective in enterprise software.
For investors, this product enhancement supports CrowdStrike's narrative as a comprehensive security platform rather than a point solution, potentially supporting higher valuation multiples and expanded market opportunity. The timing of this release also demonstrates the company's ability to maintain product momentum despite recent challenges.
CrowdStrike's Network Vulnerability Assessment capability represents a textbook example of platform expansion strategy that creates multiple competitive advantages. By leveraging their existing agent architecture as network scanners, they're eliminating the hardware dependencies that plague traditional solutions while creating a significant technical barrier to entry.
The single-agent architecture delivers compelling operational benefits beyond just security outcomes. IT departments struggle with agent proliferation - each new security tool typically requires its own agent, creating management overhead, performance impacts, and potential conflicts. CrowdStrike's approach of extending capabilities through their existing agent creates tangible operational efficiencies.
What's particularly notable is how this capability addresses the fundamental limitation of traditional vulnerability management: the disconnect between vulnerability scanning and actual threat intelligence. By natively integrating threat intelligence and attack path analysis, CrowdStrike is solving a fundamental workflow problem that has the effectiveness of security programs.
The automated remediation capabilities also represent a significant advance over traditional scanners that simply generate reports without actionable pathways to resolution. By connecting vulnerability discovery directly to orchestrated remediation through Falcon Fusion SOAR, they're closing a critical operational gap.
This product evolution illustrates how AI capabilities can transform established security practices when properly integrated into workflows. Rather than just applying AI to produce faster results, CrowdStrike is using it to fundamentally reimagine how vulnerability management should work in modern environments.
New capability extends the Falcon platform’s AI-driven risk prioritization to network assets, eliminating the need for standalone scanners, agents or hardware; Falcon Exposure Management customers can assess up to
The single-agent architecture of the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform empowers organizations to replace legacy vulnerability management tools with a single click, consolidating security operations on the Falcon platform and modernizing static, CVSS-based risk models with an adversary-driven approach. Falcon Exposure Management customers receive free scanning for up to
“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, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “For too long, organizations 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 prioritization. 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 prioritization 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 prioritizes 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
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 leverages 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.
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AI-Driven Risk Prioritization: Falcon Exposure Management’s patented ExPRT.AI pinpoints the
5% of vulnerabilities driving95% of risk.2 By analyzing adversary behavior, active exploits, and real-world threat intelligence, organizations 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 behavior 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 industry-leading threat prevention, detection and response across endpoints, cloud, identity and data, along with Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon® Complete Next-Gen MDR, provides organizations with the technology and services they need for full cycle threat protection across every area of enterprise risk.
Availability and Free Scanning
Network Vulnerability Assessment is now generally available as part of Falcon Exposure Management. All customers receive free scanning for up to
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1 Offer available to existing Falcon Exposure Management (FEM) customers only. Eligible customers will receive free Network Vulnerability Assessment (NVA) coverage for up to
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