Sylvain Filippi, DS Virgin Racing Managing Director

Formula E team DS Virgin Racing has implemented Kaspersky Lab’ s Endpoint Security for Business to keep critical data secure for minuteby-minute decision-making.

THE CHALLENGE

DS Virgin Racing is a UK-based Formula E team, founded in 2013. On race day, every second counts for the team’ s trackside engineers. Any loss of access to IT can be fatal for the team’ s fortunes. A cybersecurity solution that protects the priceless data used for minute-by-minute decision making is essential. The theory of marginal gains, in which thousands of minute improvements combine to produce a winning formula, could have been written with elite motorsport in mind.

Data capture and analysis on an industrial scale produce the insights that help engineers and drivers to make fine adjustments to the car’ s set up and racing tactics. On race day, at Formula E’ s challenging street circuit environments, fully-functioning IT systems are critical for success – and are tested to breaking point. Every team member is pushed to the limit, with access to telemetry required for minuteby-minute decision-making.

Crucially, with testing, qualifying and the race itself all taking place on the same day, any downtime or service interruptions are usually fatal to a team’ s chances.

Having already been a team sponsor, Kaspersky Lab stepped up its involvement by deploying its cybersecurity technology to protect all aspects of DS Virgin Racing’ s devices, both trackside and the corporate activities back at the Silverstone headquarters.

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