The article explains how Atlassian Williams F1 Team is tightening its cyber defenses with KeeperPAM, a cloud-native Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform built around zero trust and zero-knowledge principles. The motivation is straightforward: an F1 team generates terabytes of sensitive telemetry and performance data each race weekend, and any compromise—whether at headquarters or trackside—could disrupt operations or leak valuable competitive information. Unlike a typical enterprise, Williams’ infrastructure and staff move constantly across 20+ countries each season, so they needed security that works reliably “anywhere” without slowing engineers down.

In practice, the case study highlights that KeeperPAM helped Williams centralize privileged access through one platform so security teams can apply policies consistently, monitor privileged sessions, and generate alerts when activity looks unusual. It also supports least privilege with features like role-based access and the ability to grant temporary admin rights on demand and remove them automatically—useful when engineers need elevated access briefly but shouldn’t keep it permanently. The overall message is that modern PAM should reduce friction through automation (provisioning/deprovisioning, policy enforcement, secret handling) while improving visibility and control—turning cybersecurity into an operational enabler rather than a brake.

Source: https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2026/01/14/keeper-security-puts-atlassian-williams-f1-team-in-pole-position-on-cybersecurity