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Exposure Management Platforms: 2027 Brand Leaders

Platforms that consolidate security findings across assets, identities, cloud environments, and attack paths to prioritize and coordinate risk reduction.

Leadership split. Tenable was voted Market Leader (32.7%) while CrowdStrike was voted Innovation Leader (26.4%), one of three categories in this survey where votes for innovation leadership went to a different vendor than the market leader.

Market Leader award
Market LeaderTenable32.7% of votes
TenableQualysRapid7CrowdStrikeMicrosoftOther32.7%22.4%15.0%14.6%14.2%1.2%

Tenable led by more than ten points, while Rapid7, CrowdStrike and Microsoft finished within a point of each other. Tenable's lead reflects its vulnerability management heritage and its early move to unify assets, vulnerabilities, identities and cloud exposures in Tenable One.

Innovation Leader award
Innovation LeaderCrowdStrike26.4% of votes
CrowdStrikeTenableQualysMicrosoftRapid7Other26.4%20.5%20.1%18.5%13.4%1.2%

CrowdStrike won innovation by nearly six points after placing fourth on market. Voters appear to credit its approach of building exposure management into Falcon, using the same agent and threat intelligence to prioritize the exposures adversaries are most likely to exploit.

Vote shares from verified AI professionals in the 2027 AI Cyber Risk Management Brand Leader Survey, released November 4, 2026.

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