Mastercard × Insight Partners
Mastercard agreed to acquire Recorded Future from software investment firm Insight Partners for $2.65 billion. [51, 53] Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company that uses AI to analyze data and identify potential cyber threats for its clients, which include over 50% of the Fortune 100. [54, 55] The acquisition builds on an existing collaboration where the two companies developed an AI service to more quickly alert banks of compromised payment cards. [51, 63]
The asset
The acquisition of global threat intelligence company Recorded Future, which provides real-time visibility into potential cyber threats by analyzing a broad set of data sources. [51, 54]
- 2k clients
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- Threat intelligence
- Modalities
- threat intelligence data, cybersecurity data
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This acquisition demonstrates a major payment network's strategy of investing heavily in AI-driven data analysis to enhance its cybersecurity services. [53] By integrating Recorded Future's broad threat intelligence capabilities, Mastercard aims to move from reactive fraud detection to proactively predicting and preventing cyber attacks across the digital economy. [63]