⚙️ DevOps & Platform Eng

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.

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. 𝕏
  • Proxied systems show dramatically better security hygiene: 53% fewer vulns, per 388k-org study. 𝕏
  • Breached orgs had glaring gaps; this could slash ransomware risk 5.3x by closing them proactively. 𝕏
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Originally reported by Cloudflare Blog

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