Internet Census Group seeks to analyze trends and benchmark security performance across a broad range of industries. We are committed to the education and long-term improvement of security practices across the Internet to provide an ever-stronger defense against the threat of security attacks. The Internet Census Group is led by BitSight Technologies, Inc. and we encourage organizations from industry, government or academia that would like to collaborate on security projects to contact us. Our data collection techniques involve making a series of connection attempts to publicly accessible computers and devices on the internet. Specifically, we make a standard connection request to an online system, and – in the cases where the systems are responsive – we will attempt a protocol handshake.