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Track Salt Typhoon's attack surface: Censys research reveals 6-month exposure trends for Cisco, Sophos, Ivanti & Fortinet devices targeted by this Chinese state-sponsored threat actor.
Discover how Attack Surface Discovery helps identify hidden vulnerabilities in internet-facing assets. Learn how Censys delivers real-time attack surface management visibility.
Discover why asset attribution is key to reducing Mean-Time-to-Remediate (MTTR) and strengthening your attack surface management. Learn how to respond faster to threats.
External Attack Surface Management or EASM solutions have become an integral part of the modern security tech stack. EASM solutions provide the essential visibility, context, automation, and scalability that organizations need to understand the entirety of their external attack surface and defend against advanced threats. However, as with any tech, not all EASM solutions are […]
Attack surfaces are top of mind for today’s security leaders, according to the recent Censys 2023 State of Security Leadership report. Surveyed security leaders say that understanding the entirety of the organization’s attack surface is their number one priority for the next 12 months. These leaders know that if they don’t understand all of […]
Latest CISA Directive Highlights Importance of Attack Surface Visibility By Brad Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, Censys Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new binding operational directive (BOD) requiring federal civilian agencies to enhance protections for devices on government information systems that use network protocols for remote management over public […]
Who better to talk about the value of a solution than the folks who actually use it? As part of the recent Total Economic Impact of Censys External Attack Surface Management study, Forrester Consulting independently interviewed Censys customers to learn more about the business value they achieve with our Censys EASM solution. The big […]
As cyber hostility increases in volume, it’s easy to forget that the increases span the spectrum of sophistication. Zero day exploits and multi-million dollar ransoms might grab headlines, but the cost and ease of executing simple attacks is only getting cheaper and more accessible. Therefore, the digital security threats prevented by basic hygiene and sound […]
As a financial company that deals in a critical aspect of their clients’ lives, Swiss Life attaches great importance to their corporate governance policies. In following with their procedures around international accounting, auditing, and a code of conduct to safeguard the interests of their shareholders, policyholders, and staff, Swiss Life wanted to better understand […]
For anyone who has been in the cybersecurity or tech industries for any amount of time, a year or two can feel like an eternity, and a decade tends to leave behind enough techno-fossils to fill countless warehouses. It is therefore hard to believe that the conversation surrounding zero trust has now been taking […]
If you were at Black Hat this year, or if you’ve been doing your homework online on the Internet at all, you’ve probably terms like EASM, ASM, Exposure Management, Attack Surface, and the many other variations that seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Are these tools? Capabilities? Or just the latest marketing […]
Cyber attackers are crawling the Internet constantly, looking for any vulnerabilities to exploit within organizations’ Internet-facing and cloud assets. Organizations and their security teams implement cloud data protection solutions, but unknown — and unsecured — assets remain. How can companies prevent and protect from attacks in a comprehensive way? They need to think like an […]
Attack Surface ManAttack Surface Managementagement (ASM) is quickly emerging as a critical element of any digital security strategy. Within ASM, a technique called “Attribution” is foundational because it can automatically detect parts of an organization’s external attack surface that they didn’t realize even existed. And when attribution is automated and efficient, it can adapt to […]
Every day at Censys we hear a variety of scenarios security teams encounter, many of which have severe consequences to the business. Some of the common ones we’ve heard are: These scenarios happen all the time and across industries. While each has their own set of specific challenges, cleaning up assets using end-of-life (EOL) […]
