Censys provides an internet intelligence platform that utilizes advanced scanning techniques to create a detailed map of internet-facing assets, enabling security teams to monitor and manage their attack surfaces effectively. By delivering real-time data on potential vulnerabilities and threats, Censys helps organizations proactively protect against sophisticated cyber attacks.
Funding
$50M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
GFounders
Product
Problem
Organizations often lack comprehensive, real-time visibility into their internet-facing assets, leading to unknown exposures, misconfigurations, and shadow IT. This limited visibility makes it difficult to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Traditional security measures often fail to keep pace with the rapidly evolving threat landscape and the dynamic nature of cloud environments.
Solution
Censys provides an internet intelligence platform that delivers comprehensive and continuously updated data on internet infrastructure, enabling security teams to effectively manage their attack surfaces and proactively hunt for threats. The Censys platform leverages a proprietary internet map, built using advanced scanning techniques, to provide real-time visibility into internet-facing assets, including hosts, certificates, domains, and cloud resources. By providing a rich understanding of asset connections, configurations, and discovered threat details, Censys empowers security teams to prioritize risks, accelerate incident response, and reduce the likelihood of security breaches. The platform's actionable intelligence helps organizations understand their dependencies, identify unknown exposures, and track adversary infrastructure.
Target Audience
Censys is designed for security teams, threat hunters, incident responders, and security analysts across various industries, including financial services, government, and healthcare, who need comprehensive internet visibility and actionable intelligence to protect their organizations from cyber threats.
Features
- Daily updates of hosts, certificates, domains, web entities, and software with frequent scans
- Automated seed refresh leveraging company intelligence to map company-to-domain linkages and monitor changes in real time
- Cloud connectors for AWS, Azure, and GCP, providing real-time accuracy and coverage of ephemeral cloud assets
- Asset inventory search with a user-friendly query language to explore over 2000 scan data fields
- Tailored security alerts to focus on organization-specific security queries and critical updates
- CVE context for vulnerability prioritization, integrating with CISA's Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities catalog
- Integrations marketplace for seamless integration with alerting tools, SIEMs, ITSM products, and vulnerability management solutions
- Dashboards and reports that deliver actionable insights, trends, and benchmarks for measuring attack surface performance
- Censys Internet Map providing real-time data about all Internet infrastructure
- CensAI for accelerated security response