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Pick two to five vendors to see the facts we record for each in one table: the five tool types, twelve practical checks, the platform each extends, integrations and pricing. The table has no scores; rows where the vendors differ are tagged. It opens with the first three vendors in alphabetical order.
| Fact | Censys ASM | Cortex Xpanse | CrowdStrike EASM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shape | |||
| Positioning | Censys's external exposure management product, built on first-party scanning of all 65K ports and the Censys Internet Map. | Palo Alto Networks' attack surface management product, built on internet-wide scanning and automated response playbooks, sold within the Cortex portfolio. | CrowdStrike's external attack surface management, now sold under the Falcon Exposure Management brand, with internet-wide scanning, adversary intelligence and an Exposure Prioritization Agent. |
| Deployment | Discovery expands from seeds the customer adds in the console or through the API; assets found beyond the seeds appear under a Found by Censys tab. Source: Censys docs: seed your attack surface · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Part of the Palo Alto Networks Cortex portfolio, with Cortex XSOAR playbooks and Prisma Cloud alongside. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Part of CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management. The page we read does not describe deployment or onboarding inputs. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| EASM discovery | Described First-party scanning across all 65K ports finds services on nonstandard ports and hosts with self-signed certificates. Source: Censys external exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Described Palo Alto Networks says Xpanse scans all 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses multiple times a day and more than 500 billion ports daily. Source: Cortex Xpanse · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Described Identifies external exposed assets, including shadow IT, and scans the internet 24/7. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Exposure validationDiffers | Described Confirms reachability and applies EPSS and KEV; active exploitation testing is not described. Source: Censys external exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Exposure management platformsDiffers | Not in our sources | Described Sits in Cortex exposure management alongside Cortex XSOAR and Prisma Cloud. Source: Cortex exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Described Sold under the Falcon Exposure Management brand; what the wider platform includes is not described on the page we read. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| CTEM programme support | Described Discovery, prioritisation with EPSS and KEV, rapid response alerts and remediation tasks; exploit validation is not described. Source: Censys external exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Described Discovery and automated response are described; exploit validation is not. Source: Cortex Xpanse · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Described The page frames the product around operationalising CTEM and describes prioritisation and guided remediation; exploit validation is not described. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| WAF posture | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Subsidiary and owner attributionDiffers | Not in our sources | Partly Identifies the stakeholders for third-party exposures; subsidiary attribution is not described. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources |
| Internal as well as external assets | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Cloud connections namedDiffers | Matches Names AWS, Google Cloud and Azure among its integrations. Source: Censys integrations · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Matches Xpanse works with Prisma Cloud. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources |
| Exploitability checkedDiffers | Partly Reachability confirmation and EPSS and KEV scoring, not exploitation. Source: Censys external exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Attack-style testing | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Works through your WAF or edge | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| WAF coverage across several vendors | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Retests after a fix | Not in our sources | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Routes findings to owners and ticketsDiffers | Matches Auto-creates, routes and tracks remediation tasks. Source: Censys external exposure management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Matches Routing and remediation through Cortex XSOAR playbooks. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources |
| Applies a compensating controlDiffers | Not in our sources | Matches Active Response runs built-in automated playbooks. Source: Cortex Xpanse · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources |
| Price or pricing basis publishedDiffers | Partly ASM is contact sales; a free platform account exists and credits start at $100. Source: Censys pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Partly No price from Palo Alto Networks; a UK G-Cloud 14 listing by reseller KHIPU Networks shows £70,850.84 per instance per year. Source: UK G-Cloud 14 listing: Cortex Xpanse (reseller KHIPU Networks) · Read 11 Oct 2026 | Not in our sources |
| Trial or self-serve startDiffers | Partly A free Censys platform account exists; ASM itself is sold through sales. Source: Censys pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources | Not in our sources |
| Platform it extends | None | Native ties to Cortex XSOAR playbooks and Prisma Cloud. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Part of CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Integrations | Webex, Slack, Jira, ServiceNow ITSM, Tenable VM, Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel, ServiceNow CMDB, Axonius, Brinqa, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Source: Censys integrations · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Cortex XSOAR and Prisma Cloud inside the Palo Alto Networks portfolio. Source: Cortex Xpanse attack surface management · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Integrations are not listed on the page we read. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Price | ASM: contact sales. A free Censys platform account exists, and credits start at $100. Source: Censys pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not published by Palo Alto Networks. Reseller listing (UK G-Cloud 14, KHIPU Networks): £70,850.84 an instance a year, no free trial, public-facing attack surfaces only. Source: UK G-Cloud 14 listing: Cortex Xpanse (reseller KHIPU Networks) · Read 11 Oct 2026 | Not published. No EASM price on the page we read and no EASM listing found on AWS Marketplace. Contact sales. Source: CrowdStrike EASM (Falcon Exposure Management) · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
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