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CrowdStrike is proud to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Attack Surface Management Solutions, Q3 2024. Our position as a Leader reinforces our belief that the rapid expansion of modern attack surfaces requires a powerful, unified solution — and CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management provides the critical capabilities modern organizations need.
Forrester conducted a 23-criterion evaluation of the top vendors among attack surface management (ASM) providers. Falcon Exposure Management received the highest score in the current offering category. We also received the highest scores possible in11 of the 23 criteria, the most among all vendors evaluated, with the highest possible scores in Vision, Innovation, Partner Ecosystem, Community, and Pricing Flexibility and Transparency.
As Forrester states in its report, attack surface management is the first step for proactive security. The rapidly growing attack surface, combined with adversaries’ rapid speed, is a cause for concern: It took eCrime adversaries an average of 62 minutes to move laterally after breaching an organization, the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report revealed. A larger attack surface also drives complexity and the likelihood of vulnerabilities — both helpful to adversaries eager to break in and hide between siloed data and tools. Organizations must implement layers of defense to identify unusual behavior and stop potential attacks.
Falcon Exposure Management provides this protection and peace of mind: “CrowdStrike’s vision is to stop breaches proactively and help customers reduce risk with unified, AI-powered vulnerability prioritization and complete attack surface visibility,” the Forrester report states.
An Innovative Approach to Attack Surface Management
“CrowdStrike showcases exemplary approaches to innovation organically through new features, with enhancements for IT ops and generative AI (genAI),” the Forrester evaluation says.
To defend their growing IT environments, organizations must gain full visibility into their attack surface, assess their exposure, prioritize key issues to address and act on them. Falcon Exposure Management harnesses the power and vast telemetry of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to provide complete cross-domain attack surface visibility, AI-driven attack path analysis and AI-powered vulnerability management across endpoint, network and cloud environments.
Where our technology stands apart is connecting the dots. Falcon Exposure Management goes beyond discovering and managing internal and external assets to make correlations between them. Teams can understand how a vulnerability in an external asset may affect an internal asset and lead to an intrusion risk. Our cutting-edge approach to ASM empowers organizations to gain total attack surface visibility, reduce intrusion risk and stay ahead of adversaries.
But it’s not enough to include all of these key capabilities analysts need — they must also be easy to use. In the Forrester evaluation, CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management was given the highest possible score in the Cyber Asset Inventory: Analyst Experience criterion.
“CrowdStrike delivers a superb analyst experience through comprehensive explainability, use case-specific dashboards, and support for emergency vulnerability response,” the report states.
Our attention to the analyst experience is especially critical for resource-strapped security teams that struggle to discover and understand attack surfaces and adversary context. Falcon Exposure Management helps them fully operationalize vulnerability management programs through the entire lifecycle, from asset discovery, to assessment and prioritization of vulnerabilities and exposures, to guided and automated remediation in the Falcon platform.
“Reference customers loved CrowdStrike’s visibility into their environment and how the vendor continues to provide new methods to support proactive use cases. CrowdStrike is a solid fit for customers looking to consolidate proactive security signals into a singular SecOps platform,” the report said.
Powering the Future of Attack Surface Management
We believe Falcon Exposure Management is the answer to the challenge presented by rapidly growing modern attack surfaces. Its blend of capabilities offers complete attack surface visibility, ease of deployment and operations, and reduced complexity and cost.
We’re proud that The Forrester Wave recognized our attack surface management solution as a Leader among top vendors in the market, and we are committed to innovating and developing a solution that meets organizations’ evolving cybersecurity needs. To that end, we recently debuted new capabilities for Falcon Exposure Management at last week’s Fal.Con conference. We will continue to work to help our customers stay one step ahead of adversaries and equip them with the tools they need to stop breaches.
Additional Resources
- Read the press release: CrowdStrike named a Leader in ASM Solutions.
- Learn more about CrowdStrike being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave.
- Learn more about Falcon Exposure Management.
- See how other industry analysts have evaluated CrowdStrike products by visiting our Awards and Recognition page.
- Learn about the powerful, cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform by visiting the product webpage.
- Get a full-featured free trial of CrowdStrike Falcon® Prevent™ and learn how true next-gen AV performs against today’s most sophisticated threats.
