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Discover how exposure management supports security compliance beyond traditional frameworks. Learn proactive strategies to identify, prioritize, and mitigate exposures across your attack surface.
Discover how to use Censys data, BigQuery, and Levenshtein Distance fuzzy matching to proactively detect and block spoofed domains and brand impersonators. Protect your organization faster.
Discover why cloud security assessments are critical for managing evolving cloud risks. Learn how to tackle misconfigurations, gain visibility, and reduce your attack surface.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In recognition of the federal designation, we’re taking a closer look at cybersecurity recommendations from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and adding in a few of our own. What can organizations do to better protect what they own? CISA’s Recommendations Cybersecurity Awareness […]
It’s been about two months since we released our 2023 State of the Internet Report. With access to the most comprehensive internet-wide scan data available, narrowing our focus for the report to a specific area or set of technologies on the internet was a formidable challenge. Ultimately, we decided to focus on the web, […]
Haven’t had a chance to tune in to some of our recent webinars? Catch up on what you’ve missed with these on-demand recordings! You can stream the recordings at any time from the links below. Profiles in Threat Hunting: Finding Threats by Observing Behaviors Presenters: Censys Senior Security Researcher Emily Austin; Censys Director of Federal […]
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 […]
A new cloud security ops goal for 2023? Start thinking like an attacker. No, seriously. If you’ve never thought about what it would be like to try to break-and-enter into your own organization’s cloud infrastructure – like really, truly thought about it – we’re here to say that it might not be a bad idea. […]
In part-two of our Threat Detection, Defense & Remediation Using ASM series – based on this recent eBook from the Censys Research Team – we’re exploring the attack surface of the Internet. How is it evolving, and what do changes in the Internet’s attack surface mean for corporate cybersecurity? When we talk about the “attack […]
Your phone rings in the middle of the night, and when you answer, it’s a call you’ve been dreading. Your company has been the target of a cyberattack. The fallout? Unknown at the moment, but a million scenarios run through your mind. Has customer data been compromised? How much will this cost our organization? Will […]
When a public real estate company realized they lacked a comprehensive cloud inventory and found evidence of infection, they leveraged the Censys Attack Surface Management platform to gain greater visibility into all of their Internet-based assets. Since partnering with Censys, the company achieved a full view of their attack surface and generated significant ROI. Key […]
A brief history of Censys Search Censys continually scans the entire public IPv4 address space using automatic protocol detection to present the most accurate representation of the internet’s current state. This means that we see the internet for what it is: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Just this year we launched a report […]
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 […]
The cloud has quickly become one of the most important — and most exposed — spaces within your attack surface. With an ever-evolving attack surface that constantly impacts assets within cloud environments, it’s no surprise that 65% of high and critical security risks are found in cloud assets. Unfortunately, many attack surface management solutions do […]
Attack surface management was reviewed by Forrester in a recent report to help IT decision makers in security and risk management better understand its function and value as part of the modern security tech stack. It’s no secret that the market for cybersecurity solutions is overflowing with options. How can IT decision makers thoroughly understand which solution […]
