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A Guide to Assessing Your Shared Web Hosting Footprint

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Feed Name: Censys Blog

Date Published: 2021-02-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

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Censys examined shared web hosting across 70 Fortune 500 companies and found organizations typically use many different shared providers (average 16), creating distributed and often unmanaged attack surface. The brief outlines five assessment areas—understanding services in use, data loss risk, configuration and asset management, vendor management and consolidation, and connections to core infrastructure—and recommends using Censys ASM to discover, prioritize, and reduce exposure by consolidating or better managing hosting providers.

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