Aston Martin Cognizant’s Formula 1 team selected SentinelOne’s XDR (Singularity Extended Detection and Response) platform to manage cybersecurity requirements and protect IT (IoT) devices and sensors while it is preparing for its debut season.
Although Aston Martin is officially a new addition to the Formula 1 paddock in 2021, the series’ history dates back to the late 1950s, and the team – renamed by Racing Point’s owner Lawrence Stroll – has a continuity that extends into dating back to the early 1990s when Jordan was founded. For this year’s relaunch, the former Racing Point driver Lance Stroll will remain in the team and will be supported by four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel.
SentinelOne also has history with the larger company Aston Martin Lagonda, which has been using the Singularity platform since 2018.
“I am delighted that SentinelOne will be one of the key partners of the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 team as we bring Aston Martin back to where it belongs, to the forefront of international motorsport, Formula 1,” said Team chairman Lawrence Stroll.
“It is clear that our two companies have a lot in common. Our partnership will be very real and deliver real performance improvements for the safe and smooth operation of our team. “
XDR is an evolution of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology that offers new capabilities to address the varying numbers of vulnerable points that malicious actors can use to reach a successful compromise, such as: B. mobile devices or IoT devices.
For technology-driven Formula 1 teams that have long relied on the capabilities of the IoT in terms of sensor data in order to achieve the much-needed edge advantage on the right path – in many cases actively helping to support its development – this is from XDR may be extremely valuable.
XDR supposedly replaces isolated security to help organizations meet their security needs from a more unified point of view. It pulls data from across the area to enable faster, deeper, and more effective threat detection and response capabilities, threat visibility and context, and detection of events that are traditional approaches and solutions may be lacking.
For example, according to SentinelOne, organizations dealing with a typical ransomware attack – that traverses the network, arrives at an email inbox, and then attacks the endpoint – are at a disadvantage if they look at each of these three events independently. The more integrated approach that XDR offers enables automatic allowing, blocking, removal of access and much more, either through custom rules written by the user or through logic built into the engine.
Ultimately, according to SentinelOne, users get a single pool of raw data from across their ecosystem, enabling them to detect and respond to threats faster, deeper, and more effectively, discovering more stealthy attacks, reducing the dwell time of malicious actors when they are found, and reducing their correction time.
“The parallels between Aston Martin and SentinelOne are strong and it is an honor to support the highly anticipated return of the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One team to the top of global motorsport,” said Tomer Weingarten, CEO and co-founder of SentinelOne.
“We both share a relentless passion for innovation and a desire to disrupt the status quo and an appreciation for the importance of speed. These basic principles are the soul of this partnership and represent the power of the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 team and SentinelOne. “
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