CrowdStrike Falcon Surface vs RiskXchange

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.

RiskXchange is a third-party risk management platform that combines external security ratings with vendor evidence and ongoing monitoring. Its outside-in network covers more than five million companies, according to the company. The platform scores risk from 0 to 900 and includes dark-web breach correlation, compliance mapping and remediation tracking. Its Agency comprises five lead agents and 27 specialists for tasks including onboarding vendors, assessing evidence, monitoring, remediation and regulatory reporting. NOVA can contact vendors by email, WhatsApp or in-app chat; customers can pause contact for an individual vendor. Integrations include Jira, ServiceNow, Archer, OneTrust, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Professional and Enterprise include a REST API, and webhooks support event-driven workflows. RiskXchange says it holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, with regional hosting in the UK, EU and US and tenant data held in the selected region. Plans start at £14,900/yr; a free SnapShot evaluates one live vendor and provides a posture report within 24 hours.