Security analysts investigate and prioritize risks every day. But once you find a critical exposure, the next question is often the hardest: Who owns this, and who can fix it?
Especially within large enterprise environments, that answer is rarely obvious. Cloud infrastructure is fragmented across hundreds of accounts, subscriptions, and projects. Ownership is spread across teams, business units, and vendors.
Even when a risk is undeniable and urgent, remediation can stall because security teams are forced into guesswork and manual pivoting. Even finding the right person to contact can be a challenge.
At the same time, a lack of cloud context makes prioritization harder. Two assets can look similar from the outside, but one might support a core customer workflow while the other is a temporary dev resource. If you cannot quickly understand what an asset is and why it matters, risk prioritization becomes slower, noisier, and less defensible.
The solution: Cloud Asset Context.
Introducing Cloud Asset Context in Censys ASM
Cloud Asset Context brings rich cloud context directly into Censys Attack Surface Management (ASM) from all available cloud connectors:
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Wiz
Censys is now ingesting invaluable metadata such as:
- Cloud tags
- Account, organization, subscription, and resource-level data
- Billing and account ownership context
- And many more cloud-specific fields
Instead of pivoting across multiple tools to understand an asset, that context lives alongside your ASM risks and asset inventory. With Cloud Asset Context indexed and searchable, you can:
- Group risks by owner account, subscription, organization, and resource-level context, then route remediation to the right team faster.
- Search and filter assets by cloud attributes to isolate exposures tied to specific environments, teams, or accounts.
- Spot high-impact assets faster by using richer context to understand what a resource likely represents and why it matters.
- Reduce tool switching by keeping cloud context in ASM, right next to exposures and investigation workflows.
Why Cloud Asset Context Matters
1) Ownership signals mean faster remediation
Once a risk is discovered, a common remediation bottleneck is routing it to the right owner.
Asset 203.0.113.17 doesn’t tell much of a story without its context. Add in metadata like Account Email (cloud-ops@company.com), Account Name (payment_integrations), and Cloud Tags like pagerduty: sre-integrations-primary, and you’ve got ownership signals. Remediation handoffs can be smoother and more timely.
2) Asset importance means better prioritization
An exposed asset is only part of the story. The business impact depends on what the asset is, where it lives, and how it’s used. With Cloud Asset Context, your team can quickly distinguish between assets that may look identical (from the Internet), but have very different business roles.
For example, let’s say Asset 198.51.100.42 is tagged environment: prod, service: customer-payments, and owned by the payments platform team. Meanwhile, Asset 198.51.99.44 is tagged environment: dev, team: internal-tools, and is owned by a small engineering group. Same exposure on both, but the former carries obvious business risk. It gets remediated first, with a tighter SLA and executive visibility.
Built for Enterprise Cloud Reality
Enterprise cloud environments are rarely clean. Ownership is distributed. Naming conventions are inconsistent. The same asset type can serve wildly different purposes depending on the account, project, or workload.
Cloud Asset Context is designed for that reality. By bringing cloud-native context into ASM and making it searchable, Censys helps security teams move from exposure visibility to remediation momentum.
Get Started
Cloud Asset Context is rolling out as part of Censys ASM and works across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Wiz connectors. Read the documentation to learn more about how it works.
If you are already a Censys ASM customer, keep an eye out and start using Cloud Asset Context to route remediation faster and prioritize exposures with more confidence. If you are evaluating ASM, reach out to the Censys team to see Cloud Asset Context in action and how it fits into your exposure management workflow.
