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Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence
At Mastercard, our Security Solutions team is responsible for building the solutions that protect billions of transactions, identities, and interactions every single day. Our engineers, threat hunters, and data scientists design advanced systems that safeguard the global payments network, secure digital identities, and ensure that trust scales as fast as technology does. Here, you’ll work on challenges that matter — from building AI-driven fraud prevention models and threat intelligence platforms to designing zero-trust frameworks that power commerce for people and businesses around the world.
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Mission & Purpose: Work is framed around protecting the global payments ecosystem with payment‑focused threat intelligence that unifies cyber and fraud to act earlier. Teams see direct impact as curated intel drives earlier detections, takedowns, and fraud‑loss reduction for issuers, acquirers, and merchants.
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Innovation & Products: Teams build and operate Mastercard Threat Intelligence and adjacent cyber offerings that fuse network telemetry with Recorded Future sources and AI‑enabled analytics. This enables curated, actionable signals to flow into internal defenses and customer workflows through platforms like Mastercard Connect.
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Learning & Development: Hands‑on venues like the Global Intelligence & Cyber Centre of Excellence (Vancouver), experience centers, cyber range/simulations, and threatcasting cultivate practitioner growth. Cross‑functional drills and showcases reinforce skill building in investigation, reporting, and ecosystem collaboration.
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At a glance
problems we solve
We tackle some of the world’s most complex security challenges:
• Stopping fraud in real time across trillions of data points.
• Detecting nation-state and criminal cyberattacks before they reach consumers or partners.
• Designing AI-driven defenses that continuously learn and adapt to new threat patterns.
• Embedding zero-trust principles across Mastercard’s global infrastructure and products.
• Securing digital identity and authentication systems that make commerce safer for billions of users.
• Enabling privacy-preserving data sharing, ensuring innovation and compliance go hand-in-hand.
how we use ai
AI is core to how we defend. Our teams build and deploy:
• Machine learning models that detect and neutralize fraud and anomalous behavior in real time.
• Threat intelligence systems that analyze global attack data and proactively identify vulnerabilities.
• Natural language and graph analytics to uncover hidden connections between threat actors and attack vectors.
• Automated response frameworks that turn detection into prevention — at scale.
who uses our products
• Banks and fintechs, protecting their customers and infrastructure.
• Merchants and marketplaces, detecting and stopping fraud.
• Governments and enterprises, using Mastercard threat intelligence to secure national systems.
• Consumers, who may never know your name but rely on your work every day to pay safely and confidently.
our products
As cyber threats evolve, so do we, staying ahead of risks while creating seamless experiences that empower confident digital interactions.
Our multi-layered approach addresses security before, during, and after transactions:
- Threat Intelligence: Uncovering, analyzing, and neutralizing cyber threats before they strike
- Cybersecurity Solutions: Developing proactive protection against emerging threats
- Advanced Fraud Prevention: Building AI and machine learning systems that detect anomalies in real-time
- Decision Intelligence: Powering split-second security decisions while maintaining seamless user experiences
the scale of our product
We score 159B transactions per year for fraud - an average of 5,000 transactions per second - to help stop real-time payment scams.
We help prevent synthetic identities from opening accounts - our models take in more than 30M interactions each day to validate individual transactions.
Security Solutions sits at the center of this ecosystem — ensuring every interaction is secure and trusted.
