CrowdStrike Falcon Surface vs ZEST Security

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.

ZEST Security is an exposure management platform focused on resolving vulnerabilities across cloud, code, containers, infrastructure as code, applications, and the supply chain. It simulates fixes and mitigations to identify resolution paths intended to lower risk with less effort. Its listed AI agents cover asset mapping, root cause analysis, prioritization, impact simulation, code generation, policy and guardrail analysis, and resolution building. ZEST supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, and says it has more than 50 integrations across security tools; named integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Terraform, Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable, Snyk, and Wiz. The company says deployment takes minutes through a read-only cloud account and built-in connectors, and that the platform does not directly change cloud environments. It also says each customer has a separate tenant hosted in the US or Europe, customer data is not sent to external AI services, and its in-house language model runs within its AWS infrastructure. ZEST states it is SOC 2 compliant. Pricing is on request, with a 14-day trial; support hours vary by plan.