Cloudflare, Inc. and Mastercard Incorporated have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping small businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure organizations defend themselves against modern cyber threats while continuing to innovate. As cyber risks grow alongside digital transformation, both companies are working to deliver tools that combine visibility, intelligence, and automated protection into a unified cybersecurity framework.
Through this collaboration, attack surface monitoring capabilities from Mastercard’s intelligence platforms, Recorded Future and RiskRecon will integrate with Cloudflare’s Application Security portfolio. As a result, organizations will gain a centralized solution that helps them map digital exposure, prioritize risks, and automate remediation across internet-facing environments. Consequently, security teams can respond faster while maintaining operational agility.
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Today, organizations increasingly rely on emerging technologies, third-party vendors, outsourced services, and legacy systems. However, while these technologies help accelerate business innovation, they also expand the attack surface. Therefore, many companies struggle to maintain full visibility across their digital environments. In many cases, shadow IT, forgotten assets, or misconfigured services create hidden vulnerabilities. Because of this complexity, organizations now need cybersecurity strategies that allow innovation without compromising protection.
“Improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity 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.”
The partnership focuses on three key operational capabilities. First, it helps eliminate visibility blind spots. Organizations will be able to discover internet-facing domains, services, and software stacks using Recorded Future intelligence. When teams identify unprotected assets, they can immediately extend Cloudflare’s application security protections to secure these exposures.
Second, the collaboration enables real-time cyber posture visibility. Organizations will receive continuously updated security insights, including an “A–F” graded rating based on vulnerabilities, authentication weaknesses, exposed infrastructure, and third-party risk exposure. These insights will appear directly within Cloudflare’s Security Insights dashboard, allowing teams to prioritize remediation based on asset criticality and threat severity.
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Third, the solution translates risk intelligence into direct protection actions. Security teams will be able to activate defenses such as web application firewalls, encryption controls, and automated mitigation capabilities directly from the dashboard. Therefore, organizations can move from detection to protection without operational delays.
“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 organizations are strategic targets and are often attacked at a greater rate than global enterprise or Fortune 500 organizations,” said Stephanie Cohen, chief strategy officer at Cloudflare. “This partnership brings together the best in cyber defense so that these underserved organizations don’t fall victim to the growing number of cyberattacks.”
“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.”
Overall, this partnership reflects a growing shift toward integrated cybersecurity ecosystems. As cyber threats evolve and digital environments become more complex, unified intelligence-driven protection will likely become essential for organizations seeking both security resilience and business growth.
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