Cloudflare and Mastercard enter into a strategic partnership to better protect small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments against cyber threats.
Cloudflare and Mastercard announce a strategic partnership focused on cybersecurity. Both companies aim to develop joint solutions that help small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments better identify and address cyber risks.
The collaboration combines the threat intelligence and risk assessment of Recorded Future and RiskRecon, part of Mastercard, with Cloudflare’s Application Security portfolio. The goal is to provide organizations with a unified solution to inventory their entire internet-facing environment, prioritize risks, and activate security measures.
Insight into hidden risks
According to both companies, many organizations struggle with a growing and difficult-to-manage attack surface. New vendors, outsourced services, shadow IT, and legacy systems create blind spots. This makes it challenging for security teams to fully map out risks.
Through Recorded Future, organizations can detect all internet-facing domains and software stacks active online. When unsecured or unknown assets emerge, users can enable additional security measures directly from the Cloudflare dashboard.
The solution also provides a security score from A to F. This score is based on checks regarding software vulnerabilities, authentication, exposed infrastructure, and third-party risks. The findings appear in Cloudflare’s Security Insights dashboard.
Automated protection
In addition to insight, Cloudflare and Mastercard want to simplify the transition to action. Organizations can activate security features via the dashboard, such as a web application firewall (WAF), encryption, or other automated defense mechanisms.
The partnership explicitly targets smaller organizations and public institutions. According to the partners, these entities often have limited resources while remaining strategic targets for attackers. By combining threat intelligence and security measures into one integrated approach, Cloudflare and Mastercard aim to increase the resilience of these target groups.