Censys recently had announced the accomplishment of a $35million Series B Funding Round powered by Intel Capital. The firm is a leading provider of continuous attack surface management.
The funding round was also attended by the firm’s previous investors comprising of Google Ventures, Decibel, and Greylock Partners. With this funding round, as per the firm’s reports, Censys will continue to accelerate its R&D, engineering, product, and sales operations.
Additionally, as per the firm, it reported appointing Brad Brooks, former OneLogin CEO, as the firm’s latest CEO to aid the acceleration of the crucial next phase of the firm’s Growth and Product Development.
Sunil Kurkure, Managing Director, Intel Capital stated: “Censys provides a consolidated view into both internal and external attack surface and dependencies enabling security leaders to make informed risk decisions and provide a swifter response to issues.”
Sunil further added: “As organizations continue to seek added protection against today’s advanced cyber threats, Censys has an opportunity to further build its attack surface management solution to help CISOs better manage the ever-expanding security perimeter. We’re thrilled to be a part of the exciting journey ahead.”
As per the firm’s announcement, they have roped in Brad Brooks as he is a seasoned campaigner being a senior technology executive with over 25 years of experience working with management teams at DocuSign, Juniper Networks, and Microsoft to innovate product lines and grow customer base, succeeds Lorne Groe, who served as interim CEO and will return to his role of CFO and COO.
As per the firm’s reports, Brooks role at Censys will be to power the firm towards its further growth phase and acceleration of its solutions roadmap offering more asset discovery and self-service capabilities for enterprises and government agencies.
Brad Brooks, CEO, Censys stated: “Censys has created a stellar attack surface management platform that organizations view as a security problem solver. This industry leadership is reflected in the significant triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth it has experienced year over year and the organizations it calls customers, including Google and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.”
Mr. Brooks also added: “I’m excited to join Censys as we begin this exciting new chapter and help bring more innovative capabilities to this rapidly growing attack surface management marketplace.”
According to the Censys reports, Organizations’ unmanaged internet assets continue to jeopardize their overall security posture with expansive attack surfaces for bad actors to exploit and introduce new risks and incidents. In 2020, internet-facing cloud assets were involved in 73% of reported cybersecurity incidents.
According to the firm’s announcement, Censys’ mission is to provide intuitive attack surface management, enabling organizations to comprehensively manage their Internet-facing assets and risks regardless of the host location, including discovering previously unknown internet assets.
Censys’ attack surface management platform continuously discovers organizations’ internet assets and monitors them as part of a comprehensive inventory, identifies egregious security issues and prevents oversights from becoming vulnerabilities by ensuring that assets are protected by integrating with existing security solutions.
