The multi-year deal puts Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange behind the team’s car design, race strategy and trackside data, with branding on the AMR26 from the Austrian Grand Prix.
A single Formula One race weekend can throw off more than a terabyte of telemetry, streaming in real time from hundreds of sensors on each car to engineers scattered across time zones.
Keeping that data moving, and keeping it private, is now a named job on the Aston Martin Aramco team sheet.
The team announced a multi-year partnership with Zscaler, bringing the cybersecurity firm on as its Global Cybersecurity Partner.
Under the deal, Aston Martin Aramco will run Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform to protect what the team calls its most valuable assets, from car design and race strategy to the live data flowing between the track and its UK-based AMR Technology Campus.
The platform connects the race team and its applications directly and securely, the team says, without exposing the network to attackers.
The pitch leans on a shared operating condition. Both organisations work in settings where, as the announcement puts it, milliseconds matter, decisions cannot wait, and a single point of failure can be catastrophic, whether that failure is a missed pit call or a breached network.
Formula One is among the most data-intensive environments in global sport, and the team frames the partnership as a way to keep that data both fast and defended.
Zscaler, which says it protects more than 45% of the Fortune 500, joins as the team works toward what it describes as a transformation into a championship-winning operation.
The commercial markers are concrete: Zscaler branding will appear on the nose, seatbelts, and wing mirrors of the AMR26, and on the drivers’ overalls, debuting at the Austrian Grand Prix.
“We’re pleased to welcome Zscaler to our team as a Global Cybersecurity Partner,” said Jefferson Slack, managing director of commercial and marketing at Aston Martin Aramco.
“This partnership brings together two organisations invested in performance in highly demanding environments.”
He added that the deal reflected “the momentum we are continuing to build across our business” and a strengthening of the technology ecosystem around the team.
For Zscaler, the framing was about where enterprise technology gets stress-tested.
“Formula One is where the future of enterprise technology gets tested at 300km/h,” said Sunil Frida, the company’s chief marketing officer. “Every car is a mobile data centre, every race is a global, distributed operation, and every millisecond counts.”
He tied the partnership to the company’s wider argument that defending against threats that “move at machine speed” now requires AI-driven security.
The deal adds to a roster of technology partners Aston Martin Aramco has assembled around its data operation, which already includes a cybersecurity sector increasingly built around zero-trust and AI-era defence.
The team did not disclose financial terms. Zscaler’s branding goes on the car in Austria; the rest of what a cybersecurity partner does, by design, will not be visible from the grandstand.
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