Tenable versus CrowdStrike

“Good enough” exposure management from CrowdStrike leaves you exposed

CrowdStrike’s endpoint-first approach to exposure management leaves dangerous visibility gaps across cloud, OT, IoT, web apps and networks — gaps attackers exploit. Tenable delivers complete attack surface coverage with faster and more accurate exposure detection, stronger compliance capabilities and richer vulnerability intelligence so you can know, expose and close risk everywhere it lives.

Don’t settle for “good enough.”

Talk with one of our experts and learn how Tenable delivers the exposure clarity, coverage and confidence an endpoint vendor can’t match.

Don’t strike out with endpoint-centric coverage.

Strike 1

Endpoint-centric coverage

CrowdStrike can’t see beyond endpoints and identities. Tenable covers IT, cloud, OT, IoT, web apps, identities, networks and your AI attack surface, all in a single unified platform. You don’t just detect more, you protect more.

Strike 2

Risk Guesswork

CrowdStrike’s questionable approach to risk scoring makes it hard to know what to fix first. Tenable delivers transparent, data-driven prioritization through its Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR), unmatched vulnerability intelligence, and SLA-driven exposure response workflows. That means your team acts with clarity, not uncertainty.

Strike 3

Costs that spiral

CrowdStrike’s 'single agent' promise hides technical complexity that adds cost to your budget and resources. Tenable gives you a headache-free way to detect vulnerabilities, superior third-party data, compliance breadth and peer benchmarking - all delivering measurable value with no hidden surprises.

Blind spots cost money. See why Tenable is the clear choice over CrowdStrike.

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Compare Tenable to CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

Core focus
Exposure management analytics
Asset inventory
Vulnerability Intelligence
Exposure Response
Compliance
Vulnerability coverage
Peer benchmarking
Coverage scope
Scanning technology
Tool consolidation potential
Prioritization
Patching
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Unified exposure across IT, cloud, identity, and OT

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Combines integrated metrics across risk-based vulnerability management, web app scanning (WAS), cloud security, identity, OT security, EASM and exposure third-party data

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

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

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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

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Covers a wide variety of compliance frameworks across various OSs

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

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

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Coverage for a wide variety of asset types — endpoints, network devices, OT, cloud workloads, web apps

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Agent-based, agentless and network scanning

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High—replaces scanners, CSPM, IAM risk tools, attack graphing, custom dashboards

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Transparent Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) helps you pinpoint the 1.6% of vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited

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Automatically correlate vulnerabilities to the right remediation

CrowdStrike
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Exposure from endpoint and identity telemetry

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Only Windows-network coverage at this time.

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Based on discovered external and managed endpoint assets

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CIS and DISA STIG benchmarks

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Primarily focused on endpoints with a Falcon agent and network devices visible to a Falcon agent

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Agent-based and network scanning for devices visible to a Falcon agent

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Low—adds exposure context to Falcon but doesn’t replace core security tools

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Black box scoring method that lacks contextual intelligence

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Patching limited to endpoint vulnerability remediation via agent

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CrowdStrike

Core focus

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Unified exposure across IT, cloud, identity, and OT

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Exposure from endpoint and identity telemetry

Exposure management analytics

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Combines integrated metrics across risk-based vulnerability management, web app scanning (WAS), cloud security, identity, OT security, EASM and exposure third-party data

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Only Windows-network coverage at this time.

Asset inventory

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

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Based on discovered external and managed endpoint assets

Vulnerability Intelligence

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

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Not offered

Exposure Response

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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

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Not offered

Compliance

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Covers a wide variety of compliance frameworks across various OSs

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CIS and DISA STIG benchmarks

Vulnerability coverage

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

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Not published

Peer benchmarking

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

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Not offered

Coverage scope

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Coverage for a wide variety of asset types — endpoints, network devices, OT, cloud workloads, web apps

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Primarily focused on endpoints with a Falcon agent and network devices visible to a Falcon agent

Scanning technology

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Agent-based, agentless and network scanning

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Agent-based and network scanning for devices visible to a Falcon agent

Tool consolidation potential

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High—replaces scanners, CSPM, IAM risk tools, attack graphing, custom dashboards

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Low—adds exposure context to Falcon but doesn’t replace core security tools

Prioritization

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Transparent Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) helps you pinpoint the 1.6% of vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited

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Black box scoring method that lacks contextual intelligence

Patching

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Automatically correlate vulnerabilities to the right remediation

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Patching limited to endpoint vulnerability remediation via agent

Why customers choose Tenable over CrowdStrike

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 Company
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    IDC Ranks Tenable #1 in WW Device Vulnerability and Exposure Management Market Share

    IDC Ranks Tenable #1 in WW Device Vulnerability and Exposure Management Market Share

    Tenable’s market share leadership in Worldwide Device Vulnerability and Exposure Management is a testament to the trust tens of thousands of customers place in Tenable One every day. Our placement also marks seven consecutive years at #1.

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    IDC Ranks Tenable #1 in WW Device Vulnerability and Exposure Management Market Share
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    Tenable is the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment

    Tenable is the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment

    Need a solution to help you better identify, prioritize and manage vulnerabilities across your modern attack surface? This year’s report features peer insights for those looking for a vulnerability assessment solution. From ratings and reviews, these lessons learned can help you make the best decision for your organization.

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    Tenable is the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Vulnerability Assessment

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