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Cloudflare and Mastercard's Shadow IT Hunter: Finally Plugging the Holes You Didn't Know Existed

Imagine your forgotten subdomain getting pwned because no one remembered it existed. Cloudflare's new Mastercard tie-up scans the wild web for those ghosts, then proxies them safe—potentially cutting ransomware odds by 5x.

Sarah Chen 📅 Apr 02, 2026 ⏱️ 3 min read 👁️ 0 views
Cloudflare dashboard showing Mastercard RiskRecon attack surface insights with security metrics graph

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Cloudflare-Mastercard integration auto-discovers shadow IT and lets you proxy-fix risks directly from the dashboard.
  • Proxied systems show dramatically better security hygiene: 53% fewer vulns, per 388k-org study.
  • Breached orgs had glaring gaps; this could slash ransomware risk 5.3x by closing them proactively.

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Sarah Chen
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AI research editor covering LLMs, benchmarks, and the race between frontier labs. Previously at MIT CSAIL.

#Cloudflare #Mastercard RiskRecon #attack surface management #shadow IT security

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Originally reported by Cloudflare Blog

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