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Williams Racing's Remote Working and Cybersecurity Solution

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Europe
Asia

Country

United Kingdom
Australia
Singapore

Product

DTEX Workforce Cyber Intelligence Platform
DTEX InTERCEPT module

Tech Stack

Machine Learning
VPN

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Digital Expertise

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning

Applicable Industries

Automotive
Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Cybersecurity
Remote Collaboration

Services

Cybersecurity Services
Data Science Services

About The Customer

Williams Racing is a Formula 1 race team that employs over 650 people who contribute to the team’s performance. This includes engineers who analyze real-time data from video analytics of their own and competitors’ cars, weather data, and over 300 sensors on the car to inform pit crews on health and performance. Williams Racing also operates Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), which develops and sells proprietary technology to manufacturers of commercial and personal vehicles. WAE also applies Formula 1 technology and learnings to a wide variety of industry applications, including the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine truck.

The Challenge

Williams Racing, a Formula 1 race team, employs over 650 people who contribute to the team’s performance. This includes engineers who analyze real-time data from video analytics of their own and competitors’ cars, weather data, and over 300 sensors on the car to inform pit crews on health and performance. Cybersecurity is critical to Williams’ success on and off the track. To race competitively, their engineers need unencumbered access to the real-time data from the track and ensure that the data is not tampered with. To compete in their commercial markets, they need to protect their intellectual property from external attacks and insider threats. The COVID-19 pandemic has further complicated this task, with over 60% of Williams’ employees working remotely from unsecure home networks or remote Wi-Fi networks with unknown configuration.

The Solution

To protect their data, Williams Racing partnered with DTEX Systems. DTEX Systems allows Williams’ employees to work as they always have, with unrestricted access to the data and systems that each employee needs to perform at their best and produce innovative solutions. Rather than building and testing layers of strict rules that can delay access to information, DTEX Workforce Cyber Intelligence Platform analyzes user behavior to characterize actions that an individual typically performs, with machine learning to identify outlier behavior that may be malicious, negligent, or compromised. DTEX Systems was a good fit culturally as well; protecting data and the privacy of employees. DTEX adapts to how an organization works without globally categorizing any specific activity as good or bad. By monitoring normal activity, DTEX InTERCEPT module reliably and immediately generates alerts when users perform activities that are negligent, suspicious, or malicious.

Operational Impact

Williams Racing employees can work with unrestricted access to the data and systems that each employee needs to perform at their best and produce innovative solutions.
DTEX Workforce Cyber Intelligence Platform analyzes user behavior to characterize actions that an individual typically performs, with machine learning to identify outlier behavior that may be malicious, negligent, or compromised.
DTEX InTERCEPT module reliably and immediately generates alerts when users perform activities that are negligent, suspicious, or malicious.