Attack surface monitoring capabilities from Mastercard’s Recorded Future and Riskrecon, paired with Cloudflare’s Application Security portfolio, will be designed to allow millions of organisations to defend against the risks posed by an increasingly interconnected digital world. From one unified solution, users will gain the ability to map, prioritise, and automate swift remediation of hidden risks across their internet-facing environments.

Emerging technologies and tools pose opportunities for organizations to innovate at speed and find creative ways to scale their businesses. But as new vendors, outsourced services, shadow IT, and legacy systems are layered into business environments, the attack surface becomes unknown, and security teams are often left in the dark. This presents a potential visibility gap that could allow threat actors to gain the upper hand. Organisations now require cyber defence that allows them to innovate as fast as they want, with the necessary safeguards in place to protect critical information.

"Improving critical infrastructure cyber security and reducing cyber risk is an ongoing, challenging mission," said Dan Cimpean, Director of the Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate. “As society and global economies increasingly rely on digital networks, we must combine our efforts across the public and private sectors, across nations and international organizations, to build resilience and prevent cyber incidents. The protection of critical infrastructure is and must be a joint effort."

Cloudflare and Mastercard intend to help protect small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments by, for example, eliminating blind spots, providing real-time accurate views of cyber posture, and, translating risk insights into actionable protection.

“For small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments, a cyber attack 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,” said Stephanie Cohen, chief strategy officer at Cloudflare. “This partnership brings together the best in cyber defence so that these underserved organisations don’t fall victim to the growing number of cyber attacks.”

“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,” said Johan Gerber, global head of Security Solutions at Mastercard. “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.”