Cloudflare, Inc. and Mastercard Incorporated announced a strategic partnership with the intent to develop tools to help small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments protect themselves from today's most pressing cyber threats without putting the brakes on innovation. 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 organizations to defend against the risks posed by an increasingly interconnected digital world. From one unified solution, users will gain the ability to map, prioritize, 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.
Organizations now require cyber defense that allows them to innovate as fast as they want, with the necessary safeguards in place to protect critical information. Providing real-time, accurate views of cyber posture: Companies will have access to a comprehensive, continuously updated view of their cyber posture powered by Recorded Future. This includes an "A-F" graded security rating based on several checks for security controls across software vulnerabilities, authentication weaknesses, exposed infrastructure, and third-party risks.
These findings will appear in Cloudflare's Security Insights dashboard, prioritized by the asset's criticality, with added context on severity. Translating risk insights into actionable protection: Organizations will have the ability to enable security controls - such as a web application firewall, encryption, or automated defenses - to mitigate identified risks through the Cloudflare dashboard.
