MASTERCARD
Our acquisition of Recorded Future – the world’ s largest threat intelligence company – has brought together Mastercard’ s global reach and payments insight with advanced threat analytics to deliver real-time, AI-driven insights that mitigate cyber risks before they occur.
Technological advances are also resulting in an increase in the number of cyberattacks, with the evolution of AI lowering the barriers to entry for cybercrime. As the technology becomes more readily available, individuals with limited technical expertise now have the tools to launch sophisticated attacks from their homes, expanding the pool of potential threat actors and the volume of attacks with it.
Human oversight can no longer manage these numbers alone; AI-driven cybersecurity technology is crucial to automating our incident response.
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» As technology continues to evolve, proactive defence must underpin global cybersecurity efforts if organisations are to stay ahead of increasingly industrialised bad actors. That’ s why Mastercard has invested US $ 12.6bn in cybersecurity over the last six years, including AI-driven security capabilities and threat intelligence that help financial institutions
98 September 2026