
Without real-world adversary telemetry, most vulnerability management tools are disconnected from attacker behavior. Their backward-looking threat feeds only assess risk after adversaries act. With shallow automation, their triage still depends on manual rules, tagging, and guesswork.
All the while, adversaries are getting faster: The eCrime breakout time has dropped to a low of 51 seconds, the CrowdStrike 2025 Threat Hunting Report found. SCATTERED SPIDER has accelerated from account takeover to ransomware in just 24 hours.
ExPRT.AI does more than score vulnerabilities. It predicts which will be exploited, using live adversary signals, observed attack behavior, and AI trained on CrowdStrike's proprietary threat intelligence. With ExPRT.AI, security can act faster to fix the vulnerabilities most critical to their environment.
ExPRT.AI takes a fundamentally different approach than traditional scanning tools that still rely on static severity ratings, statistical projections, and legacy scanning infrastructure. It uses AI trained on years of threat intelligence from CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations, combined with observed exploit behavior and global telemetry across endpoints, cloud workloads, and identities. The result is a dynamic, transparent, and forward-looking exploitability score that indicates what attackers are most likely to target next.
While CVSS score is an important factor, the decision to prioritize a patch should not be based on this score alone. In fact, attackers sometimes favor lower-severity vulnerabilities, in particular when chaining vulnerabilities — a method that allows adversaries to achieve remote code execution (RCE) by combining multiple exploits into a single attack.
As explained in the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report, exploit chaining undermines the severity score-based patching process that many businesses follow. While pre-authentication vulnerabilities receive out-of-band patches and are typically prioritized for patching, associated post-authentication exploits receive less attention and may be ignored. This could potentially allow the exploit to be chained with a different vulnerability later on to again achieve RCE.
Unless an organization addresses the root cause of multiple vulnerabilities, threat actors can repurpose similar techniques and quickly develop alternatives that bypass initial mitigations. Given this, it's essential to understand the context of vulnerabilities when prioritizing patching.
ExPRT.AI evaluates vulnerabilities in the context of real attacker tradecraft. And it gets smarter every day.
ExPRT.AI is trained to rank vulnerabilities based on how likely they are to be exploited in the real world. Powered by years of CrowdStrike's proprietary threat intelligence, adversary tradecraft, and real-time telemetry, the model doesn't ask, "How bad is this vulnerability in theory?" It asks, "Would an attacker actually use this?"
To answer this, ExPRT.AI evaluates a blend of behavioral and environmental factors, including:
With this information, it shares the real-world exploitability of each vulnerability so teams can focus on what's likely to be used against them.
Each vulnerability is evaluated using a curated set of adversary-aligned signals. These inputs are indicators of attacker interest, intent, and opportunity, and they're mapped directly to outcomes that matter for defenders.
The signals listed below are some of the most impactful and predictive, based on what we consistently observe in real-world exploit activity. They represent a subset of the broader set of inputs ExPRT.AI uses to assess exploitability.
Together, these signals produce a daily updated, globally consistent exploitability score. But ExPRT.AI doesn't stop at a number — it also provides a transparent explanation of the top weighted factors that drove the result. This gives analysts confidence to act, and leadership visibility into why certain vulnerabilities take priority.
ExPRT.AI is natively embedded in Falcon Exposure Management and delivered from the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, CrowdStrike's AI-native foundation that connects endpoint, identity, cloud, and threat intelligence in real time. It's powered by the same AI and telemetry that drive detection, investigation, and automated response across the platform.
The capabilities of the Falcon platform empower ExPRT.AI users to:
This is what vulnerability prioritization looks like on an AI-native platform: built-in intelligence, real-time context, and operational value on Day One.
Organizations using ExPRT.AI are seeing measurable, repeatable outcomes across risk reduction, remediation speed, and operational efficiency. Intermex, for example, achieved a 98% reduction in critical vulnerabilities in its DMZ by combining ExPRT.AI with AI-driven asset criticality, streamlining its entire patching workflow.²
Across CrowdStrike customers, ExPRT.AI has shown to³:
We continue to innovate in vulnerability management. At Fal.Con 2025, we debuted the Exposure Prioritization Agent, one of several new AI agents built to fortify the agentic SOC. The Exposure Prioritization Agent summarizes vulnerabilities in plain language, validates their exploitability with Falcon platform telemetry, maps their impact to business-critical assets, and delivers a prioritized, high-confidence list of what to fix first.
Risk-based Patching, coming soon to CrowdStrike Falcon® for IT, aims to close the gap between security and IT teams. Falcon Exposure Management relies on adversary activity and attack paths to prioritize vulnerabilities, and Risk-based Patching acts on this information by using AI-powered patching with Patch Safety Scores and sensor intelligence to remediate risk.
As CrowdStrike leads the next era of cybersecurity with the agentic security platform, Falcon Exposure Management will deliver real-time, risk-based prioritization powered by the same intelligence behind CrowdStrike® Charlotte AI™ and agentic SOC automation.
¹. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search#/nvd/home?resultType=statistics
². https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/resources/customer-stories/intermex/
³. These numbers are projected estimates of average benefits based on recorded metrics provided by customers during pre-sale motions that compare the value of CrowdStrike with the customer's incumbent solution. Actual realized value will depend on individual customer's module deployment and environment.
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