As the attack surface expands and the number of vulnerabilities grows, organizations face a new crisis: how to prioritize which vulnerabilities to fix first based on their level of risk.
CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management addresses this challenge with new AI-powered capabilities to help defenders identify what matters most and take action with precision.
New innovations include AI-powered Asset Criticality, Client-Side Attack Path Analysis, and a CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM integration. Combined with the power of ExPRT.AI, our proprietary exploit prediction engine, these capabilities help teams identify and fix the riskiest vulnerabilities first.
Too Many Vulnerabilities, Not Enough Guidance
In 2024, 52% of exploited vulnerabilities observed by CrowdStrike were used to gain initial access, according to the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report. Adversaries target internet-exposed systems and vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated remote code execution. They move quickly and quietly to access organizations’ most valuable data, often faster than defenders can respond.
Legacy vulnerability management tools have not kept up with adversaries’ speed and sophistication. They rely on static CVSS scores and generic dashboards, offering no visibility into which vulnerabilities are being exploited, how attackers could move through an environment, or which systems are most critical to address. Security teams are drowning in data without knowing where the real risk lies.
This isn’t a volume problem, it’s a risk prioritization problem. Falcon Exposure Management solves it by combining real-time threat intelligence, business context, and AI to show defenders what to fix first.
AI-powered Asset Criticality: Context-Aware Asset Prioritization
If security teams can’t identify critical issues, they will chase noise, waste time, and give threat actors the advantage. Falcon Exposure Management gives them a flexible way to classify assets based on prioritized risk.
AI-powered Asset Criticality categorizes assets into one of three tiers — Critical, High, and Non-Critical — to reflect their importance to the business. It uses firmographic, behavioral, and peer telemetry to automatically classify and prioritize assets. This criticality informs the understanding of potential attack paths, helping security teams address vulnerable assets.
While manual categorization works for one-off cases, it is generally slow, inconsistent, and disconnected from business priorities. Automated rules are more efficient. Falcon Exposure Management provides two ways to automate asset classification:
- Falcon-recommended rules use human intelligence and crowdsourced insights to identify assets that peer organizations consider critical, reflecting years of field-tested experience.
- AI-powered recommendations enhance this with anonymized data, business context, and learned behavior patterns to deliver tailored guidance that evolves with new threats and organizational changes.
ExPRT.AI: Predictive Prioritization
Traditional tools rely on static CVSS scores, which aren’t connected to live threat activity. Teams focused on CVSS scores often spend unnecessary time patching vulnerabilities unlikely to be exploited, while missing critical threats. CrowdStrike’s proprietary vulnerability rating system, ExPRT.AI, sits at the core of AI-driven Risk Prioritization to address this problem.
ExPRT.AI evaluates the risk level of individual vulnerabilities and predicts the small subset most likely to be exploited in the wild. It uses real-time threat intelligence and adaptive AI models to deliver forward-looking prioritization, and it is continuously enriched with data from cloud snapshots, container image scans, third-party vulnerabilities, and internal telemetry.
With this data, ExPRT.AI categorizes vulnerabilities as Low, Medium, High, or Critical to help teams prioritize remediation efforts. Teams can use this to stay ahead of adversaries with informed decisions, improve risk mitigation, and reduce the burnout associated with navigating long lists of vulnerabilities to address.
Client-side Attack Path Analysis: Map the Adversary’s Journey
Knowing what’s vulnerable is one part of the solution. Understanding how attackers will get to it is another. Falcon Exposure Management now proactively surfaces attack paths that start with client-side exploitation of end-user devices.
Today’s adversaries are exploring stealthier infiltration methods. Client-side exploitation is a common initial access technique. SILENT CHOLLIMA, for example, has been observed exploiting vulnerabilities in popular browsers. If a user visits a malicious webpage, it can lead to remote code execution and device compromise. With endpoint access, an adversary can move laterally throughout the environment.
Client-side Attack Path Analysis reveals how adversaries move from internet-exposed assets through internal systems and cloud workloads to reach sensitive data. Security teams can visualize this progression in a single, unified view that shows how breaches start, spread, and impact the business, gaining a stronger understanding of the attacker’s journey.
In cases where client-side exploitation risk stems from vulnerable applications, customers can use Falcon’s real-time response capabilities to remotely uninstall the application. This reduces exposure without disrupting the entire device.
Next-Gen SIEM Integration: Smart Prioritization Drives Smart Response
Vulnerability data has historically lived in static dashboards, which is useful for audits but disconnected from live response. The integration of Falcon Exposure Management and CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM changes that. Vulnerability data now streams into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM in real time, empowering the SOC to correlate exposure with behavior across systems, detections, and timeframes.
With this integration, prioritized vulnerability and asset signals flow directly into detection workflows, informing analysts on which alerts matter and why. Ingesting this data allows SOC analysts to see what’s vulnerable, what’s active, what’s connected, and what has already been addressed. Analysts can then investigate with full risk context, improving triage speed, reducing false positives, and aligning real-world attack paths with business risk.
Customers need both Falcon Exposure Management and Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to use this capability.
Stay Ahead of the Adversary
CrowdStrike’s AI-driven Risk Prioritization, delivered through Falcon Exposure Management, helps security teams focus on the threats that matter most. By combining predictive exploitability, business-aware asset context, attacker behavior modeling, and real-time detection enrichment, it transforms overwhelming vulnerability data into prioritized, actionable defense. All four of these capabilities are now available in Falcon Exposure Management.
We are committed to building the capabilities our customers need to beat today’s adversaries and stop breaches. This innovation is possible due to the unified single-agent architecture of the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform.
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