Think Like an Attacker: The Importance of ASM in SaaS Cloud Security

### Executive Summary: This vendor brief explains why organizations must "think like an attacker" to locate and secure unknown cloud and Internet-facing assets; it outlines cloud data protection best practices—continuous asset discovery, organization-wide data protection policies, and applying vulnerability management to unknown assets—and promotes Censys Attack Surface Management (ASM) as a solution to continuously discover, prioritize, and integrate unknown assets into existing security stacks.