The Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team has announced a multi-year partnership with Zscaler, naming the cybersecurity company as its Global Cybersecurity Partner.
Aston will be deploying Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform across the team’s operations from this weekend’s Lenovo Austrian Grand Prix.
A single F1 race weekend generates more than a terabyte of telemetry from hundreds of sensors on each car, all of it running in real time between the trackside team and Aston Martin’s AMR Technology Campus in the UK.
Protecting that data – and the car design and race strategy information that sits alongside it – from sophisticated cyber attacks is a significant and growing concern across the sport.
“This partnership brings together two organisations invested in performance in highly demanding environments,” said Jefferson Slack, Managing Director for Commercial and Marketing at Aston Martin.
“Zscaler’s belief in our long-term vision both on and off track reflects the momentum we are continuing to build across our business.
“Partnerships like this play an important role in supporting the future of our organisation and strengthening the technology ecosystem around the team.
Zscaler’s platform connects teams and applications directly and securely without exposing the network, a model the company describes as Zero Trust.
The partnership makes Aston Martin one of the first F1 teams to formalise cybersecurity as a named partner category rather than treating it as an internal infrastructure concern.
Sunil Frida, Chief Marketing Officer at Zscaler, drew a direct parallel between the demands of F1 and the cybersecurity challenges its platform is built to address.
In an era where threats move at machine speed, defending against attackers requires advanced AI. That’s exactly the world Zscaler was built for.
Sunil Frida
“Formula One is where the future of enterprise technology gets tested at 300km/h,” he said.
“Every car is a mobile data centre, every race is a global, distributed operation, and every millisecond counts.
“In an era where threats move at machine speed, defending against attackers requires advanced AI. That’s exactly the world Zscaler was built for.”
Zscaler branding will debut on the nose, seatbelts and wing mirrors of the AMR26, as well as on driver overalls, from the Austrian Grand Prix onwards.
