The Customer
- European auto racing team with over 900 employees
- Historic brand stretching back to the early 1900s
- High profile partnerships and drivers
“Flare is like a weather forecast. It looks ahead to see what threats are on the horizon and what’s going on outside of our vision so we can preemptively take action. ”
– Cybersecurity Operations Manager, British Racing Team
Speed and Situational Awareness On and Off the Track
In racing, speed and timing are the keys to success. Drivers and their teams need to understand the track so they can optimize their vehicles, ensuring that they cross the finish line before their competition. This speed and situational awareness translates across the organization to include their security teams as well.
Over the years, malicious actors have targeted Formula One and NASCAR teams to steal sensitive, competitive information to either hold for ransom or leak to competitors. For example, in 2021, attackers compromised the F1 mobile app and began sending out messages to fans that told them to check their own security. Meanwhile, in 2025, the ransomware gang Medusa targeted NASCAR along with other organizations, allegedly stealing over a terabyte of data.
In the same way these teams need to optimize their autos to ensure the fastest times, their security teams need the fastest threat detection capabilities to protect their brands. Threat intelligence acts as the security team’s engine tuner, enabling them to race – and win – against threat actors.
For this well-known, historic, and beloved European auto racing team, comprehensive visibility into their external threat landscape was critical.
Challenge: Disconnected Toolset Stalled Operations
Over time, the security team had collected various open-source and cyber threat intelligence resources, including both free and paid options. However, the team struggled with disparate and disconnected data that made taking direct action time-consuming.
To improve situational awareness, the team sought a simple, easy-to-use cyber threat intelligence solution that would give them rapid access to data without requiring major resources for integration or onboarding.
Implementation: Accelerating Insights with Improved Visibility
Taking advantage of Flare’s free trial, the security team was able to gain near-instant insights after setting up a login so they could act on data right away. They found that Flare’s straightforward interface enabled team members of all experience and skill levels to do keyword searches and retrieve data. The initial Flare deployment took little time, with no dependencies on anyone within the team and provided data to the team rather than needing to collect it from them.
After gaining access to the data sources, the team wanted to retain the value of those insights. The team measured success by how much more quickly they were informed, enabling them to respond to issues sooner because they had improved visibility into the external attack surface.
The team decided to move from the free trial to becoming a customer due to Flare’s ease of use and ability to rapidly deliver results.
“The onboarding process from free trial to full customer experience was low impact to our team, a very straightforward process that unlocked additional identifiers and features. It broadens our ability to use Flare without impacting our day-to-day operations.”
– Cybersecurity Operations Manager, British Racing Team
Benefits: Full Throttle Situational Awareness
Since the security team knew their estate and data, they further accelerated their onboarding and tuning processes. They knew the areas they wanted to monitor which made setting up Flare straightforward. They chose to retain additional insights from the feed to improve their situational awareness, but they also know they can easily filter out any unnecessary noise.
In the last six months, the security team has started refining data and using new features. By incorporating visualizations, summaries, and dashboards into their processes, the organization was able to take Flare’s easy-to-understand insights and empower all security team members, regardless of their skill and experience level.
As they expand their use of Flare’s platform, they have improved their ability to rapidly search for compromised accounts. Further, they were able to expand their supply chain monitoring capabilities, enabling them to take additional proactive steps to uplevel their vendor risk management processes.
With Flare, the team was able to consolidate all cyber threat intelligence monitoring in a single location to refine their processes for comprehensive visibility providing the data that supports their confidence in their external threat management capabilities.
