COMMENTARY
When you step into an F1 garage, it looks like a movie set until you pay closer attention. Dozens of laptops glow, radios chirp, and sensors aplenty are monitoring everything from fluid levels to tire pressure. Mechanics move with a surreal type of choreography.
It is a rolling data center that sprints across continents from week to week. Oracle Red Bull Racing operates within this rhythm, and its habits map cleanly to how modern security teams should work.
This crossover is more than a metaphor. The car is the product. The strategy is the roadmap. The pit wall is the command center. When the lights go out, there is no buffer for misrouted access or stale credentials.
Treat Insider Risk Like a Racing Incident
F1 has a long history with espionage. The greatest exposure rarely starts at the perimeter with nefarious types peering through the fence; it starts innocently enough with someone who has access, who then feels pressure, and ultimately finds an opening.
The lesson is simple: It’s important to treat insider risk as a safety problem. Once, at the Montreal Grand Prix, I took a picture in the pit, of tires that had sensors attached. That was not well-received, an innocent mistake on my part that could have inadvertently exposed sensitive information.
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Two more moves matter. First: shortening the lifespan of sensitive credentials. Long-lived secrets invite quiet misuse. I’ve worked in environments in the past where accounts had not been changed, let alone audited, in over 10 years. Secondly: pair alerts with responsible owners. If someone clones a restricted repository from a new device, a real person should get the page and know what to do.
Run Zero Trust at Race Pace
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