Aston Martin Aramco has appointed Zscaler as its global partner for cybersecurity.

      The multi-year agreement integrates Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange into the team’s car design, race strategy, and trackside data, with branding set to appear on the AMR26 starting from the Austrian Grand Prix.

      A single Formula One race weekend can generate over a terabyte of telemetry, which is streamed in real-time from hundreds of sensors on each car to engineers located across different time zones. Ensuring this data flows seamlessly and remains secure has now become a designated role within the Aston Martin Aramco team.

      The team has announced a multi-year collaboration with Zscaler, which will serve as its Global Cybersecurity Partner. As part of the agreement, Aston Martin Aramco will utilize Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform to safeguard what the team considers its most crucial assets, including car design, race strategy, and the real-time data exchanged between the track and its UK-based AMR Technology Campus.

      The platform aims to connect the racing team and its applications directly and securely, without exposing the network to potential cyber threats. The partnership highlights a shared operational environment where, as stated in the announcement, milliseconds are critical, decisions cannot be delayed, and a single failure—be it a missed pit call or a network breach—can lead to disastrous consequences.

      Formula One is one of the most data-intensive settings in global sports, and the team regards this partnership as a means to ensure that data remains both swift and secure. Zscaler, which claims to protect over 45% of Fortune 500 companies, joins Aston Martin Aramco as the team moves toward what it describes as a transformation into a championship-winning operation.

      The commercial elements are tangible: Zscaler branding will be featured on the nose, seatbelts, and wing mirrors of the AMR26, as well as on the drivers’ race suits, debuting at the Austrian Grand Prix.

      “We’re excited to welcome Zscaler as our Global Cybersecurity Partner,” stated Jefferson Slack, managing director of commercial and marketing at Aston Martin Aramco. “This collaboration unites two organizations focused on performance in highly challenging environments.” He noted that this partnership underscores “the momentum we are building within our business” and enhances the technological ecosystem surrounding the team.

      For Zscaler, the partnership underscores where enterprise technology undergoes rigorous testing. “Formula One is where the future of enterprise technology is evaluated at 300km/h,” remarked Sunil Frida, the company’s chief marketing officer. “Each car functions as a mobile data center, every race constitutes a global, distributed operation, and every millisecond is crucial.”

      He linked the partnership to the company’s broader assertion that protecting against threats that “operate at machine speed” necessitates AI-driven security solutions. This agreement contributes to a lineup of technology partners that Aston Martin Aramco has assembled around its data operations, which increasingly focus on zero-trust models and defenses suitable for the AI era.

      The team did not reveal the financial details, but Zscaler’s branding will be displayed on the car in Austria; the other contributions of a cybersecurity partner will, by nature, remain unseen from the grandstands.