Introduction to Censys Cloud Connectors
Overview
Accurately attributing Internet-facing assets is especially challenging in cloud environments, where change is sudden and frequent, and where many services are unnamed and unattributable by conventional methods. A Cloud Connector ensures that the Censys Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform is always up to date with your organization's entire inventory so that your security teams are not working with partial or stale data. By combining this stream of changes with the Censys Internet scanning data, Censys ASM provides insights into the current external state of your cloud assets.
Use Cloud Connectors to continuously monitor data in S3 buckets, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure blobs, as well as virtual instances, databases, and more.
How to configure Cloud Connectors
To get started with a connector, follow the setup documentation:
Data refresh frequency
Cloud Connectors refresh more often than other connections. After you set up Cloud Connectors, your data will refresh as often as every 4 hours.
To see the latest refresh time in Censys ASM, click Integrations in the top navigation menu, then view the date within the Cloud Service Provider cards.
Permissions required
Depending on the Cloud Connector being deployed, Reader/Reviewer/Viewer/Audit permissions are required. These permissions allow the Cloud Connector to view metadata about assets in your cloud environment but do not allow access to any of your assets.