Censys Search

Internet Visibility Starts with Censys

Turn global Internet visibility into actionable intelligence that powers triage, investigation, and hunt.

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The Most Complete and Accurate View of the Internet

Censys Search is the industry’s most powerful and comprehensive search engine for discovering and analyzing every system, service, IoT device, and asset on the Internet.

See Every Detail to Every Asset, Instantly

Powered by the Censys Internet Map, Censys Search delivers comprehensive visibility into every IP, domain, service, certificate, and more — including emerging adversary infrastructure.

Comprehensive Visibility

Find services across the complete 65K port space and see more individual service attributes, including non-standard and high number ports commonly missed by other solutions.

Accurate & Real-Time

Censys’ continuous scanning eliminates stale and duplicate data that create noise, false positives, and worse, a false sense of security.

Native AI Support

Instantly answers complex questions through conversational interface, natural-language queries, and MCP API.

Seamless Workflows

APIs, SDKs, and CLI make it easy to add Censys Intelligence into your existing security stack.

Find Every Internet-Facing Asset

Search any Internet-facing hosts, certificates, and web properties instantly using the Censys interface and API

Search

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Find Any Host or Service Running on Any Port

Gain visibility to any Internet connect infrastructure, from common web applications to IoT devices to specialized industrial control systems, and see detailed protocol & metadata attributes.

Fingerprints, Exposures, & Threats

Censys Search interface displaying fingerprints, exposures, threats, network details, and investigation options for a host.
Software, Hardware, CVEs, and Threat Visibility

Identify software versions, hardware manufacturers, known CVEs, and emerging threat activity from a single platform.

Certificate Database

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The Industry’s Largest Certificate Database

Complete, continuously updated view of every publicly visible X.509 certificate observed across the Internet.

Real-Time Asset Monitoring

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The Industry’s Largest Certificate Database

Complete, continuously updated view of every publicly visible X.509 certificate observed across the Internet.

Historical Insight

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See How Assets Change Over Time

Extensive service history reveal when certificates, services, or configurations changed — critical for Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Extended Investigations.

Relationship-Driven Discovery

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Discover Asset Relationships Across the Internet

Pivot effortlessly across IPs, domains, certificates, and services to uncover related assets and infrastructure relationships.

A dark-themed Censys search interface displays a world map highlighting countries by host count, with a list of top
Find Any Host or Service Running on Any Port

Gain visibility to any Internet connect infrastructure, from common web applications to IoT devices to specialized industrial control systems, and see detailed protocol & metadata attributes.

Censys Search interface displaying fingerprints, exposures, threats, network details, and investigation options for a host.
Software, Hardware, CVEs, and Threat Visibility

Identify software versions, hardware manufacturers, known CVEs, and emerging threat activity from a single platform.

Search results from Censys Certificate Database displaying certificate details, issuer, validity, and trust status.
The Industry’s Largest Certificate Database

Complete, continuously updated view of every publicly visible X.509 certificate observed across the Internet.

Dashboard displaying real-time asset monitoring with total assets, recent additions, removals, and a graph of asset activity
The Industry’s Largest Certificate Database

Complete, continuously updated view of every publicly visible X.509 certificate observed across the Internet.

Censys Search interface displaying a timeline of historical SSL certificate data and network activity from September to
See How Assets Change Over Time

Extensive service history reveal when certificates, services, or configurations changed — critical for Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Extended Investigations.

A screenshot of Censys Search displaying a list of network pivots and related data points for relationship-driven discovery.
Discover Asset Relationships Across the Internet

Pivot effortlessly across IPs, domains, certificates, and services to uncover related assets and infrastructure relationships.

See the Internet at Scale

Discover how Censys delivers unmatched internet visibility and threat intelligence.

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