Our Foundation
Censys maintains the most accurate, comprehensive, and real-time map of Internet infrastructure. Our best-in-class visibility empowers security teams to uncover risks, identify threats, and strengthen defenses. Trust Censys to deliver the most complete Internet intelligence and proactively stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
What is the Censys Internet Map?
The Censys Internet Map is the industry’s most comprehensive, up-to-date dataset of global Internet infrastructure and the foundation for our security solutions. Censys’ ML-driven scanning infrastructure continually learns the complex deployment patterns of Internet infrastructure, which it uses to track every IP, host, service, and website on the Internet in close to real time.
We enhance our data with external context, WHOIS, CVEs, and threat actor fingerprints — enabling security teams and researchers to uncover threats, track changes, and defend their Internet presence with precision.
How We Build The Internet Map
The Censys Internet Map isn’t just a collection of raw scan data; it’s a continuously evolving, real-time representation of everything that exists on the Internet. Our technology doesn’t just find assets — it understands them, enriching each entity with context, ownership, risk profiles, relationships, and changes over time. This is how we build and maintain our Map of the Internet.
Discovers services on non-standard ports, uncovering Internet services that would otherwise go uncovered.
Identifies services and protocols regardless of their port, revealing misconfigurations, unauthorized services, and backdoors.
Goes beyond IP addresses to detect technologies like WordPress, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, and exposed APIs on web entities.
Enriches data with deep intelligence on ownership, risk, and ties to threat actors.
A Living Map of the Internet – Tracking All Internet Infrastructure
The Internet is more than just IP addresses and domains; it’s the intersection of global industry, commerce, and infrastructure. Censys curates the deepest, most contextualized map of everything connected to the Internet, helping security teams track not just their own assets and dependencies, but the infrastructure adversaries use to attack organizations.
Attackers use a complex web of servers, domains, and compromised equipment to launch and manage campaigns. Censys maps these relationships in real time.
Banks, hospitals, and multinational corporations rely on complex, distributed networks, but hidden risks exist across every exposed endpoint.
ISPs, mobile networks, and backbone providers form the foundation of global connectivity, but misconfigurations and attacks threaten availability.
From corporate websites to internal dashboards, misconfigured applications and exposed databases create significant attack surfaces.
From power grids to water distribution, industrial control systems manage essential operations, but they’re often unsecured and exposed online.
Attackers use a complex web of servers, domains, and compromised equipment to launch and manage campaigns. Censys maps these relationships in real time.
Banks, hospitals, and multinational corporations rely on complex, distributed networks, but hidden risks exist across every exposed endpoint.
ISPs, mobile networks, and backbone providers form the foundation of global connectivity, but misconfigurations and attacks threaten availability.
From corporate websites to internal dashboards, misconfigured applications and exposed databases create significant attack surfaces.
From power grids to water distribution, industrial control systems manage essential operations, but they’re often unsecured and exposed online.
The Proof Is In the Data
Censys has pushed (and continues to push) the boundaries of Internet-wide scanning, and today, we remain light-years ahead in speed, coverage, and accuracy.
Censys reports the highest percentage of verified, real-time services with 92% accuracy, compared to the next highest competitor at 68% accuracy.
We scan all 65,535 ports, detecting 82% of services, compared to just 43% by the next best competitor.
We refresh data nearly 10 times faster than alternative platforms, ensuring you work with real-time intelligence, not outdated data.
Censys identifies new services 7–34 times faster than the nearest competitor, catching emerging risks before they become active threats.
Datasheet
Modern security teams need more than surface-level visibility, they need deep, accurate intelligence about what’s happening across the entire internet. The “Censys Internet Map” datasheet explores the power behind Censys’ industry-leading platform: a real-time, high-fidelity map of every active internet service.
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