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

Unified view

Tenable One Exposure Management platform continuously evaluates the accessibility, exploitability and criticality of all your digital assets across cloud and on-prem: IT systems, cloud resources, identity systems, web apps, OT devices, external attack surface management (EASM) and third-party cybersecurity tools.

See all of your exposures in a unified view
Pull in multiple diverse vulnerability sources, including threat intelligence data like CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Exposure Management is primarily EDR-centric, with recently added limited network vulnerability assessment capabilities. It still lacks comprehensive context across the entire attack surface, including web applications and third-party data.

“CrowdStrike’s platform requires you to have an additional logging aggregator or platform that would ingest the logs from their identity protection platform. Tenable’s Identity Exposure [part of Tenable One] fits nicely into our ecosystem… Tenable One will have visibility into configuration issues in our Active Directory [AD] or authentication mechanisms... It just brings it nicely together.”

Director Cybersecurity, NA Health Research Company¹

Unified analytics

Separate actual exposures from all the noise to enhance productivity and minimize risk:

Tenable offers fully integrated and normalized risk metrics for all asset types and data sources.
Tenable maps all assets, identities, and risks to critical business services, processes and functions for rich context to drive smarter remediation decisions.
The addition of 3rd party data, including threat intelligence sources like CrowdStrike intelligence, centralizes the view and improves context-driven risk prioritization

CrowdStrike Exposure Management prioritization model is limited by its reliance on endpoint telemetry² and can’t match Tenable’s analysis of 50+ trillion data points.

Sicurezza oltre l'endpoint

Continuous assessments across IT, cloud, OT/IoT, networks and third-party apps
Detect lesser-known CVEs and systems missing EDR agents
Use multiple detection technologies: agents, passive monitoring, distributed scan engines, dynamic application security testing (DAST), OT sensor, and infrastructure as code (IaC) assessment
Analyze data and context from multiple third-party sources

Falcon Exposure Management assessment is limited to endpoints with a Falcon agent². While CrowdStrike has recently introduced network vulnerability assessment, its coverage is primarily focused on endpoints and systems that are immediate neighbors.³

Data accuracy and transparency

Tenable’s rich plugin output provides detailed vulnerability context to streamline dispute resolutions and minimize time wasted on false positives.
Unlike CrowdStrike, which primarily relies on package enumerations, Tenable performs additional checks, like examining dynamic link library (DLL) files and registry keys for more accurate detection and fewer false positives.
Tenable’s Vulnerability Intelligence tracks vulnerability history over time. Exposure Response enables risk remediation tracking with service level agreements (SLAs). Together, they create a unified risk-based workflow, regardless of patch availability.

CrowdStrike Exposure Management detection produces a high volume of noise and false-positives.

CrowdStrike Exposure Management doesn’t provide a full path to the vulnerability.

“CrowdStrike…has a vulnerability management module…we own that module, but frankly, it doesn't have the same coverage as the other enterprise vulnerability management tools such as Tenable…Tenable by far has better vulnerability coverage, meaning they assess way more applications and way more vulnerabilities.”

Security Manager, Optical retail company⁴

Leader nella conformità

Tenable covers a wide variety of compliance frameworks across operating systems to help ensure compliance across your complex and diverse ecosystems.

CrowdStrike only has CIS benchmark² compliance checks.

Tenable Exposure Management compliance overview dashboard video

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Core focus

Unified exposure across IT, cloud, identity, and OT

Exposure from endpoint and identity telemetry

Analisi della gestione dell'esposizione

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

Inventario degli asset

Unified asset graph across IT, cloud, OT, and identities

Based on discovered external and managed endpoint assets

Intelligence sulle vulnerabilità

Vulnerability Intelligence for insight into current critical threats and to understand details based on Tenable Research

Non offerto

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

Non offerto

Conformità

Covers a wide variety of compliance frameworks across various OSs

Limited support for CIS benchmarks

Copertura delle vulnerabilità

Industry’s broadest coverage published on https://www.tenable.com/plugins

Non pubblicate

Peer benchmarking

Comparison of cyber risk to industry peers and to quickly identify shortcomings and strengths

Non offerto

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 a leader in vulnerability management

Tenable è stata nominata leader nel report The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management, Q3 2025

Tenable continues to extend its established vulnerability assessment offerings into exposure management with its Tenable One platform

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Tenable è stata nominata leader nel report di IDC MarketScape Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment

"Organizations should consider Tenable One when seeking a unified exposure management platform that delivers broad asset coverage across IT, cloud, OT/IoT, identity, and application environments."

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1 - Internal customer interview 2 - Falcon Exposure Management Datasheet 3 - CrowdStrike’s announcement 4 - Internal customer interview

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Tenable One ha aiutato i nostri ingegneri a ridurre del 75% il tempo dedicato alle attività manuali, consentendo loro di concentrarsi sul lavoro di ingegneria vero e proprio.

Marcos Saiz CISO di TB Consulting

Tenable versus CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

Proactively secure your attack surface — not just your endpoints

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Why customers choose Tenable over CrowdStrike

Unified view

Unified analytics

Sicurezza oltre l'endpoint

Data accuracy and transparency

Leader nella conformità

Compare Tenable Exposure Managementto CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

Core focus

Analisi della gestione dell'esposizione

Inventario degli asset

Intelligence sulle vulnerabilità

Exposure Response

Conformità

Copertura delle vulnerabilità

Peer benchmarking

Coverage scope

Scanning technology

Tool consolidation potential

See why Tenable is a leader in vulnerability management

Tenable è stata nominata leader nel report The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management, Q3 2025

Tenable è stata nominata leader nel report di IDC MarketScape Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment

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