Censys Attack Surface Management
Censys Attack Surface Management continuously measures an organization’s internet-facing exposure from an outside-in perspective.
What Censys Attack Surface Management is
Censys Attack Surface Management continuously measures an organization’s internet-facing exposure from an outside-in perspective. It maps the global internet across all 65,000 ports and discovers exposed assets, including services on nonstandard ports, hosts with self-signed certificates, and hosts on residential networks. Continuous monitoring tracks changes such as new hosts, ports, certificates, and services, with alerts for meaningful changes. The product detects more than 700 exposure types and misconfigurations and over 7,000 vulnerabilities; organizations can enable or disable risk types and assign severity levels. Prioritization includes EPSS, KEV, and other vulnerability scoring mechanisms. Integrations with ticketing, vulnerability management, and security tools can help create and track remediation tasks. Listed integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Sentinel, Tenable, Qualys, and Swimlane. Executive and audit-friendly views cover exposure trends and remediation progress. Pricing is quote-based on Assets Under Management, a count Censys says is lower than its Attack Surface Size metric.
Good
- Maps internet exposure across all 65,000 ports.
- Continuously monitors asset changes and can alert on meaningful ones.
- Detects more than 700 exposure types and over 7,000 vulnerabilities.
- Integrates with cloud, security, and ticketing tools.
- Provides executive and audit-friendly reporting views.
Watch out
- Pricing is quote-based and uses Assets Under Management.
- Available only as a web platform.
Who it suits
Censys ASM is for security organizations protecting internet-facing infrastructure. It may suit teams that need continuous external asset discovery, risk prioritization, and remediation tracking.
Verdict
Censys ASM focuses on discovering and tracking external exposure, with risk scoring and remediation integrations. Pricing uses an Assets Under Management basis, so a quote is needed.
Plans and prices
From Censys Attack Surface Management's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Censys Attack Surface Management | Priced on request | Assets Under Management (AUM) based; quote required |
The facts
Each one read from Censys Attack Surface Management's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Asset discovery
- First-party scanning discovers exposed assets including services on nonstandard ports, hosts with self-signed certificates, and hosts in residential networks.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed ASM integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, ServiceNow, Slack, Jira, Tenable, Qualys, and Swimlane.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Internet coverage
- Censys maps the global internet across all 65,000 ports.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- ASM continuously monitors for changes such as new hosts, ports, certificates, and services, and can alert on meaningful changes.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Pricing basis
- Censys says ASM pricing and packaging use Assets Under Management (AUM), and the AUM count on a quote is lower than the Attack Surface Size metric.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Prioritization
- The product’s exposure monitoring includes EPSS, KEV, and other vulnerability risk scoring mechanisms.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ASM continuously measures an organization’s external attack surface from the outside in.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Remediation
- ASM can integrate with ticketing, vulnerability management, and security tools to create, route, and track remediation tasks.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- ASM provides executive and audit-friendly views of exposure trends and remediation progress.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Risk coverage
- ASM detects more than 700 exposures and misconfigurations and over 7,000 vulnerabilities; risk types can be enabled, disabled, and assigned severity levels.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- Censys’s Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type II report and UK Cyber Essentials certification.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Who it is for
- Censys describes the product as helping security organizations protect internet-facing infrastructure.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Censys Inc. was founded in 2017, and Censys ASM launched in 2020.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Censys identifies Ann Arbor, Michigan as its headquarters.checked 3 Oct 2026
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