Tenable versus CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management
Proactively secure your attack surface — not just your endpoints
Tenable has defined proactive security with best-in-class vulnerability management for more than two decades. And now, we are leading the way to exposure management. While CrowdStrike specializes in reactive incident response with endpoint detection and response (EDR), we enable security leaders to identify, prioritize and mitigate cyber risks effectively before attackers can exploit them.
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Why customers choose Tenable over CrowdStrike
Compare Tenable Exposure Management
to CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management
Core focus
Unified exposure across IT, cloud, identity, and OT
Exposure from endpoint and identity telemetry
Exposure management analytics
Combines integrated metrics across risk-based vulnerability management, web app scanning (WAS), cloud security, identity exposure, OT security, EASM and third-party data
Lacks comprehensive network scanning, web app security (WAS), identity data and holistic context beyond endpoints
Asset inventory
Unified asset graph across IT, cloud, OT, and identities
Based on discovered external and managed endpoint assets
Vulnerability Intelligence
Vulnerability Intelligence for insight into current critical threats and to understand details based on Tenable Research
Not offered
Exposure Response
Exposure Response to track risk remediation with SLAs — instead of cumulative risk scores — and a single end-to-end workflow and a risk-based approach, regardless of patch availability
Not offered
Compliance
Covers a wide variety of compliance frameworks across various OSs
Limited support for CIS benchmarks
Vulnerability coverage
Industry’s broadest coverage published on https://www.tenable.com/plugins
Not published
Peer benchmarking
Comparison of cyber risk to industry peers and to quickly identify shortcomings and strengths
Not offered
Coverage scope
Coverage for a wide variety of asset types — endpoints, network devices, OT, cloud workloads, web apps
Primarily focused on endpoints with a Falcon agent and network devices visible to a Falcon agent
Scanning technology
Agent-based, agentless and network scanning
Agent-based and network scanning for devices visible to a Falcon agent
Tool consolidation potential
High—replaces scanners, CSPM, IAM risk tools, attack graphing, custom dashboards
Low—adds exposure context to Falcon but doesn’t replace core security tools
See why Tenable is the leader in vulnerability management
IDC ranks Tenable as #1 for the sixth consecutive year
IDC recently published the Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Market Shares, 2023 to highlight the top vendors.
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Tenable is top-ranked in the Frost Radar, Vulnerability Management, 2023
Tenable is named a leading force in vulnerability management and top ranked among 13 vendors in both the Growth and Innovation indexes.
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Tenable One has helped our engineers reduce the time spent on manual tasks by 75%, which allows them to focus on actual engineering work.