CrowdStrike Falcon Surface vs Obsonis Exposure Management Platform

CrowdStrike Falcon Surface, also called Falcon Exposure Management, identifies exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths across an organization’s attack surface. It continuously provides visibility across external assets, endpoints, cloud, networks, OT/IoT, and shadow AI. ExPRT.AI and the Exposure Prioritization Agent use exploit conditions, live telemetry, threat intelligence, and asset criticality to rank exposures. Findings can connect to remediation and response workflows, including automated workflows with Falcon Fusion SOAR. The product lists external and cloud asset discovery, attack-path analysis, identity controls, and container, serverless, and Kubernetes protection. Supported cloud platforms include AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud; CrowdStrike also says the product is available for third-party endpoint environments. It lists more than 180 SaaS, security, and IT integrations, including Tenable, Qualys, ServiceNow, and Jira. Pricing is on request, with no public price listed. A free 15-day Falcon trial is advertised, but its page does not specifically identify Exposure Management as an included module. AI Discovery for LLMs, agents, IDE extensions, MCP servers, and AI-infused packages requires the Falcon for IT add-on.

Obsonis Exposure Management Platform discovers on-site and remote assets, assesses their exposure, and sends risk signals to existing defenses. Agentless discovery covers hybrid environments and fingerprints hardware and operating systems. The platform scores devices and users from 0 to 10 using a six-tier algorithm tied to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. It maps CVEs to discovered devices in real time, flags actively exploited CVEs, and provides exportable reports. It also evaluates environments against more than 16 compliance frameworks, including CMMC, NIST, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, NIS2, and DORA. Listed integrations include Cisco Meraki, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira, and others; its MCP server connects compatible AI clients to live, tenant-scoped security data. Small Business Remote costs $25 a month per license, and Small Business On-site costs $175 a month per license. The proof-of-concept trial runs in the customer's environment for about two weeks, with first results within 48 hours.