Traditional vulnerability management is broken. Security teams rely on one set of tools to find vulnerabilities; IT teams rely on another set to apply patches. These fragmented tools create a disconnect between vulnerabilities identified and patches deployed, increase the complexity of the IT environment, and lead to patching delays that give adversaries time to target exposed systems. Legacy tools lack the ability to prioritize issues based on the risks facing each organization, instead flooding teams with an overwhelming number of patches to apply based on generic CVSS prioritization.
Because all of this happens within the Falcon platform, Risk-based Patching eliminates the traditional handoff between security and IT. The two teams no longer need to export spreadsheets or submit tickets to coordinate patching. Risk-based Patching enables fast, collaborative remediation to drive down breach risk — powered by intelligence.
With Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching, live threat context enables smarter decision-making for every operator. Teams no longer need to rely on static severity scores; they can patch with an understanding of which vulnerabilities and exposures adversaries are actively exploiting. Pre-deployment safety scores, which combine rich Falcon platform telemetry with vendor insights to assess the real-world impact of each update, help teams operate with confidence. These help avoid system-breaking patches without delaying critical security fixes.
Accelerating Patch Management with Falcon for IT
CrowdStrike is introducing Risk-based Patching in CrowdStrike Falcon® for IT to close the gap between security and IT teams. With AI-powered Risk-based Patching and CrowdStrike Falcon® Exposure Management, organizations can identify, prioritize, and fix the vulnerabilities most critical to them through a single console and workflow while accelerating security and IT consolidation.
Risk-based Patching isn’t a bolt-on feature or a separate tool. It’s built directly into Falcon for IT and delivered through the same lightweight Falcon agent already deployed across the enterprise. For customers already using Falcon Exposure Management, Risk-based Patching is a natural extension — a way to act on prioritized vulnerabilities from the same platform. For IT teams, it provides the visibility, safety, and control needed to deploy patches with confidence.
The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform empowers organizations to move away from legacy vulnerability management tools and bring the security and IT teams together around their shared goal: to identify and quickly address the most critical risks across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints all through a single agent, console, and workflow.
Risk-based Patching, coming soon to Falcon for IT, accelerates the consolidation of security and IT. Falcon Exposure Management relies on adversary activity and attack paths to prioritize which vulnerabilities are most likely to be exploited. Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching acts on this information by using AI-powered patching with Patch Safety Scores and sensor intelligence to remediate risk. Together, Falcon for IT and Falcon Exposure Management close the gap between knowing where exposures are and addressing them, providing security and IT with a single unified workflow.
Ring-based deployments and smart rollout coordination capabilities make safe patching scalable. Teams can roll out updates in progressive waves, monitor impact in real time, and automatically optimize installation timing to minimize user disruption without slowing down the business.
