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CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

39Judge labels

2First choices

5Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

5% in ASM for enterprise buyers

Rank 16 of 80 in the mid-market standing

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 8 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business32 of 78

under the label threshold

Mid-market16 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprise16 of 83

under the label threshold

In vuln management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	16 of 80	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	21 of 104	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct11 labels1

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you already pay for CrowdStrike, activating Falcon Exposure Management is an incredibly lightweight way to get real-time ... visibility” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · direct prompt · alternative

“if you want external exposure tied to endpoint/cloud telemetry in the Falcon platform” GPT-5.4 mini · ASM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose CrowdStrike or Microsoft if your primary concern is endpoint security” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best cybersecurity suite incorporating vulnerability management” MiniMax M2.5 · Vuln management · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz18 of 392Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM15 of 392Not in the top three

Cortex Xpanse14 of 395Not in the top three

CyCognito14 of 392Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management13 of 391Not in the top three

Tenable12 of 399Not in the top three

Qualys VMDR12 of 392Not in the top three

Orca Security12 of 390Not in the top three

Intruder11 of 395Not in the top three

Bitsight10 of 391Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 34 of the 39 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com26

upguard.com20

synack.com14

paloaltonetworks.com12

techrepublic.com12

crowdstrike.comYour site11

tech-insider.org10

bitsight.com9

g2.com9

guptadeepak.com9

121 of the 132 domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

upguard.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-software-solutions17

synack.com/blog/best-attack-surface-management-tools14

gartner.com/reviews/market/vulnerability-assessment12

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools12

gartner.com/reviews/market/external-attack-surface-management11

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools9

technologymatch.com/blog/tenable-vs-qualys-vs-rapid7-vm-platform-comparison9

bitsight.com/guides/best-external-attack-surface-management-platforms-for-global-enterpris8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management; a claim can dispute any of them.

CrowdStrike Exposure Management 4CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure 1CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management (Falcon Spotlight) 1CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management (Spotlight) 1

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