Revisiting the State of the Internet

This Censys State of the Internet excerpt finds strong TLS adoption across the web but identifies substantial misconfigurations: roughly 40,000 publicly exposed Prometheus instances monitoring about 219,000 endpoints (48% in private IP space) and over 8,000 hosts serving sensitive files such as backups, credentials, and private keys. The report highlights the reconnaissance and breach risk posed by unauthenticated monitoring tools and recommends basic security hygiene—asset, patch, and vulnerability management.