System and method of identifying internet-facing assets

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by one of more processors cause performance of:

• creating a list of seeds at a computing device, wherein each seed in the list is associated with an asset type;
• creating a list of internet-facing assets based on the list of seeds by recursively identifying internet-facing assets associated with each seed in the list of seeds;
• retrieving information for each internet-facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets;
• storing the retrieved information with each associated internet-facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets;
• adding one or more internet-facing assets in the list of internet-facing assets to a list of internet-facing assets to be ignored in future identifying searches;
• causing display of an alert upon determining that an internet facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets is a security risk.

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• create a list of seeds at a computing device, wherein each seed in the list is associated with an asset type;
• create a list of internet-facing assets based on the list of seeds by recursively identifying internet-facing assets associated with each seed in the list of seeds;
• retrieve information for each internet-facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets;
• store the retrieved information with each associated internet-facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets;
• add one or more internet-facing assets in the list of internet-facing assets to a list of internet-facing assets to be ignored in future identifying searches;
• cause display of an alert upon determining that an internet facing asset in the list of internet-facing assets is a security risk.