Cloudflare and Mastercard have formed a strategic partnership to develop cybersecurity tools tailored for small businesses, government agencies and critical infrastructure providers.
The collaboration combines Mastercard’s attack surface monitoring capabilities from Recorded Future and RiskRecon with Cloudflare’s application security portfolio.
The aim is to help organisations identify previously unknown internet-facing assets, assess their cyber posture and automate remediation of hidden risks.
As companies layer in new vendors, outsourced services, shadow IT and legacy systems, their external exposure often expands without full visibility. This creates blind spots that attackers can exploit.
The joint solution is designed to give organisations a unified view of their attack surface and allow them to map, prioritise and address risks from a single platform.
Through Recorded Future, users can discover public-facing domains, software stacks and exposed infrastructure.
Organisations will receive a continuously updated A–F security rating based on checks across software vulnerabilities, authentication weaknesses, exposed infrastructure and third-party risks.
These findings will appear within Cloudflare’s dashboard, prioritised by asset criticality and severity.
Security controls such as web application firewall protections, encryption and automated defenses can be activated directly through the same interface to mitigate identified risks.
Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudflare, said,
“For small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments, a cyberattack is more than a technical hurdle. It is an existential threat. Often considered ‘target rich but resource poor,’ these organisations are strategic targets and are often attacked at a greater rate than global enterprise or Fortune 500 organisations.
This partnership brings together the best in cyber defense so that these underserved organisations don’t fall victim to the growing number of cyberattacks.”
Johan Gerber, Global Head of Security Solutions at Mastercard, said,
“With small businesses accounting for about half of the world’s GDP, closing the resilience gap is critical to securing the foundation of our global economy.
Our collaboration with Cloudflare propels our mission to secure the digital ecosystem in partnership with governments and other key players, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most: their productivity and growth.”
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