Mastercard has partnered with Cloudflare to strengthen cyber defense capabilities for businesses, governments and critical infrastructure providers. The collaboration aims to address a growing challenge in modern enterprises: expanding and often invisible attack surfaces.
As organizations adopt emerging technologies, integrate third-party vendors and manage legacy systems alongside cloud environments, security complexity increases. Shadow IT, outsourced services and fragmented digital infrastructures can create blind spots that attackers exploit. According to the two companies, many security teams lack real-time visibility into these layered environments, leaving gaps that cybercriminals can leverage.
The joint initiative seeks to deliver a unified solution that enables organizations to map internet-facing assets, prioritize vulnerabilities and automate remediation of hidden risks. By combining Mastercard’s cybersecurity expertise with Cloudflare’s global network intelligence, the partnership aims to provide clearer, real-time insights into cyber posture and translate those insights into actionable defense strategies.
Johan Gerber, global head of security solutions at Mastercard, said the collaboration supports efforts to secure the broader digital ecosystem in partnership with governments and industry stakeholders, allowing businesses to focus on productivity and growth.
The move comes as cyber threats continue to evolve in sophistication and scale. Notably, Cloudflare itself experienced two significant outages in late 2025 that disrupted services, including bank websites—underscoring the critical role infrastructure resilience plays in today’s interconnected digital economy.
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