Scanning the Internet, Revealing Risks and Security Insights About Attack Surfaces

Dallas Womack ('21)
Software Engineer Censys

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Keeping track of internet infrastructure can be difficult, especially as companies migrate to the cloud, workforces become more distributed, and companies acquire security debt from mergers or acquisitions. Censys helps discover, manage, and remediate risks in a company's digital foot print. Created by the founders of the Zmap project, Censys's Attack Surface Management Platform helps organizations understand their external exposures with their Global Internet Map. This presentation aims to give the audience an understanding of what an attack surface management system is, the data that Censys uses to build the attack surfaces of its customers, and how the ASM platform works. Additionally, the talk will consist of a deep dive into how assets are attributed to an organization based on seed data that is provided during the automated on boarding process.