OVER 65 GB
Race
after race the teams collect information that spans from lap times to
the ideal car setup to telemetry and
engineering figures and this data becomes
more and more valuable. And with information being shared faster and more widely than
ever before, the possibility for the data to be
compromised has also increase, because in a
sport where one hundredth of a second can
make a huge difference, this data can have
an actual monetary value too.
The cost of generating all this data from
scratch can be loosely calculated by looking
at the total number of test, race & set-up sessions and then adding together the total costs
of all of these events since the team started
racing. These are big numbers we are talking
about here.
Of course, this simple calculation merely includes the obvious team costs and there are many
more costs that should be included too to get the
true data value. In short, the number is only ever
going to be higher than we all initially think.
But it’s not just a concern for high-profile
race teams either. Small teams that have been
racing for many years have vast data sets that
can also run well into the multi-millions of dollars. And hackers know this, which is why they
are starting to turn their attention to motorsport
teams using Ransomware.
Ransomware is a type of malware that uses
encryption to lock data owners out of their digital files until they pay a monetary ransom for
a ‘key’. Essentially it works by getting into an