Tour the Trends & Benchmark Dashboard
How do I use the dashboard?
Use this dashboard to measure your attack surface size, risk counts, and average length of exposure for risks. These metrics, and their supporting segments, are trended over time to track changes, enabling you to measure progress toward the goals you set for improving attack surface hygiene, reducing risky exposures, and effectively remediating critical risks.
Metrics
The Trends & Benchmarks Dashboard focuses on three core metrics:
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Attack surface size
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Active risk count
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Average length of exposure of risks
The dashboard provides a top-level metric, and also calculates counts for different breakdown segments of your attack surface.
Learn more about the metrics and how to use them.
Breakdown Segments
Clicking on a top-level metric will filter the dashboard to show relevant breakdown segments.
Breakdown segments provide more context on why a top-level metric has changed or not.
Attack Surface Size
For attack surface size, segments broken down by asset type, attack surface composition, and tagged assets.
Explore trends in assets and their related data, such as domain registrars or certificate issuers.
Active Risk Count
For active risk count, segments are broken down by severity, risk category, and asset type.
Explore changes in risk counts of severity, categories, and asset types to explain why the overall risk count is trending up or down.
Average Length of Exposure
For average length of exposure, segments are broken down by severity, status, and risk category.
Explore changes in exposure length for different severities, categories, and asset types to explain why the overall length of exposure is trending up or down.
Benchmarks
The benchmark sprite line shows a percent change compared to the 90 day average for a breakdown segment.
For example, the table shown below reports that the current number of unique host port numbers (112) 2.6% greater than the average number of ports open over the last 90 days, while the number of unique host countries is 14% greater than the average number of host countries reported over the last 90 days.
90 Day Trend Line
The 90 day trend line charts counts for a metric or breakdown field over a 90 day period.
For example, the table below shows counts the average length of exposure for critical risks each day for the past 90 days.
Historical data collection will start on the date the attack surface was created. For customers that have fewer than 90 days of history, the graph will display counts for the days that data is available. Time-series and 90 day benchmark data is calculated at 12am UTC for the past day.
Click-Throughs
Click on any breakdown segments on the attack surface size and active risk count tabs to see the raw data that’s contributing to the current value of the metric.
Clicking on a breakdown segment may show a filtered view of the asset inventory, risk instances, or inventory aggregations.
Customers can export the CSVs of these filtered views as a report to share with stakeholders.
The average length of exposure breakdowns do not have click-throughs while in beta. Please share any feedback about the average length of exposure metric with our team at support@censys.com.
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