SECURITY
NEWS
Darktrace becomes official
AI cybersecurity partner of
McLaren Racing
Think Tank partners
with Fortinet to fill the
cybersecurity skill gap in
South Africa
D
arktrace, a leading cyber AI company, has announced a multi-
year partnership with McLaren Racing, as its AI cybersecurity
partner. The partnership will involve a technical integration of
Darktrace’s cyber Artificial Intelligence across the McLaren Group,
as well as across McLaren Racing to protect the Formula 1 team
against cyberattacks.
Darktrace’s cyber AI technology will empower McLaren to gain
complete visibility across its entire digital infrastructure – from IoT
sensors on each Formula 1 car to the cloud-based software that
fuels their operations – and identify threats as they emerge. With
strategists and engineers making critical split-second decisions, time
is of the essence for McLaren. As such, they will be using Darktrace’s
‘machine fights back’ innovation – a cyber AI technology that can
automatically block cyber-attacks at a speed and scale beyond
human capabilities.
As part of the partnership, the Darktrace brand will be
represented on the rear wing of the McLaren MCL35 race car
and on the race suits of the team’s race drivers, Carlos Sainz and
Lando Norris.
Zak Brown, Chief Executive Officer at McLaren Racing, said: “We’re
proud to welcome Darktrace for the first time into the fast-moving
world of Formula 1 and to the McLaren Racing partner family.
“Data is the lifeblood of our racing strategy and so strong cyber
resilience is key to our success on the tracks. We look forward to
starting our partnership together this season as Darktrace’s Cyber AI
will, for the first time, allow our infrastructure to be self-defending.”
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ortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated
cybersecurity solutions, has announced its first Fortinet
Network Security Academy (FNSA) in South Africa, with
Think Tank, a private higher learning organisation providing
Information Technology solutions, training, recruitment and
professional services.
This unique programme aims to provide industry-recognised
training and certification in cybersecurity in order to better
prepare young people for a career.
With this programme, Think Tank has already placed 73
unemployed youths in relevant IT positions out of 75.
In addition, Think Thank also helped in implementing the
FNSA programme within an ICT Academy in Braam Park,
Johannesburg, thanks to its partnership with NGO Afrika Tikkun,
an organisation providing education, health and social services
to young people and their families through centres of excellence
in South African townships.
“As a growing number of companies find that Fortinet
uniquely meets local security needs, we see increasing demand
for certified Fortinet specialists. We strategically aligned with
Fortinet across solutions, consulting and training, and this
has proved to be a good decision,” said Think Tank Managing
Director, Tebogo Moleta.
Think Tank now has access to FortiManager, FortiAnalyser
and FortiSIEM as a standard part of the FNSA offering and is
gearing up to expand the programme this year in talks with a
number of local universities on introducing the FNSA as part of
their curricula.
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