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What Exactly is an Attack Surface?

In 2020, Capital One was fined $80 million when a cloud misconfiguration resulted in the theft of personal data from 106 million customers. In 2018, Amazon S3 (cloud storage service) was responsible for around 30% of all records exposed, which led to high-profile breaches of the U.S. Department of Defense, Dow Jones & Co., […]

What You Need to Know About Our ASM On-Demand Remediation Validation

With new revelations like the Confluence code execution vulnerability, we are reminded how important immediate and accurate information about infrastructure is to security practitioners. Out-of-date software and exposed internal services are unfortunately common and can result in data loss and security breaches when vulnerabilities are uncovered. On-Demand Remediation Validation Now in the Censys ASM Platform, […]

Why Attack Surface Management Matters?

Attack Surface Management (ASM) is the continuous process of discovery, inventory, prioritization, and resolution of risk impacting your Internet-facing assets. Organizations are constantly reshaping their Internet-facing attack surface, whether they know it or not.  Services, and the data those services utilize, are being developed, deployed and re-configured across the Internet, many times a week. Whether […]