Oracle Red Bull Racing CIO Matt Cadieux’s cyber resilience playbook

In Episode 4 of Securing the Win, Oracle Red Bull Racing CIO Matt Cadieux joins host Calum Nicholas at MK7 in Milton Keynes to answer a crucial question: how do you make the secure path the fastest path?

For Cadieux’s team, speed is nothing without trust. Behind every lap, every call, and every win lies a digital backbone built to guard against the unseen. As threats in Formula 1^® mature and proliferate, a single weak sign-in or device can compromise safety and performance. 

Cadieux safeguards racing, manufacturing, and logistics. His answer is simple and hard-won: design for failure, verify trust continuously, and partner where it buys speed, so when pressure spikes, the car keeps flying.

Revving cyber resilience

Cadieux’s resilience playbook supports Oracle Red Bull Racing’s culture of innovation, where resilience isn’t just a project, but a practice. He says, 

We need to anticipate that things will go wrong. We build in backup plans and factor in safety so if you have to resort to Plan C or Plan D, the team can continue operating.” 

Cadieux has overseen Oracle Red Bull Racing’s security evolution from early insider-risk controls to today’s threat-dense, globe-spanning circuit. Identity-led access now gates critical workflows.

Device posture and security controls validate what device is connecting, and from where. Trackside, variables multiply, so the team runs layered security: encryption on telemetry, segmentation between environments, isolation where it counts.

Governance that follows the user.

For business continuity planning, teams scope new programs to evaluate their capabilities and potential failure modes, what could break, how it would cascade, and which controls would contain it?

The first step is knowing what data is sensitive, where it lives, and how to reduce vulnerabilities without slowing the business, a balancing act that requires constant innovation.

And then there’s execution, the discipline that turns principles into lap time. The team commits to the basics and measures them relentlessly. 

There are a lot of little fractional gains by doing the basics correctly. And executing matters. If you’ve allowed room for a mistake, it will happen. That’s not an accident, that’s something you’ve made happen.” 

To drive performance, resilience is built in, practiced regularly, and proven under pressure.

Scaling from racers to a connected enterprise

Cadieux has been with the team from the start, safeguarding its evolution from a race-car builder into a connected digital enterprise with lines of business in manufacturing, logistics, and marketing, as well as the highly sensitive, state-of-the-art powertrains they’re building for 2026.

Design now occurs in the virtual world; manufacturing operates on digital tooling that controls the factory floor; ERP systems schedule and track serialized parts for safety and reliability; and on the track, analytics and simulations guide choices in real-time. As he said, 

We touch every corner of the business, and the technology enables every person to be more efficient, more innovative, faster-moving. It’s the core of what we do.”

Scale introduces new track limits, including a global calendar, compressed build windows, and venues that the team doesn’t control.

At the track, it’s the wild west. There’s a lot more variability and third parties, so we have layers of protection. We need to know they’re trusted people, we need to know they’re who they claim to be, that their devices are validated, and that we have control of them.”

The nerve center resides at MK7, a race-day operations room where strategists, suspension specialists, aerodynamicists, and more make fast, data-driven decisions together. Images, telemetry, and notes flow to engineers moments after a huddle. HQ can pull in the original designer mid-event to help diagnose an issue. Each system is built with robust controls to streamline trust and access.

The data path from the car is hardened by design. 

The data coming off the car is all encrypted with infrastructure elements regulated for safety. Layered controls, encryption, segmentation, isolation, and continuous monitoring mitigate potential risks.

It’s all in service of continuity at speed.

It’s important that we have the right resilience, build the right security in, and still allow speed but have enough control to protect ourselves.”

In this model, identity and access are how governance manifests day-to-day, and the control room is where that governance translates into results.

Identity security and strategic partners that turn trust into lap time

Racing rewards teams that choose partners wisely. For Cadieux, strategic partners are force multipliers, especially when they help convert security into speed. 

Having a partner accustomed to being at the front of that fight helps us quite well.”

With 1Password, the team strengthened user validation and rolled out strong credentials across teams, keeping secrets out of plaintext and raising assurance without slowing hands on keyboards. Passkeys and robust password practices increase confidence at sign-in, while identity governance shows up in the work: least-privilege by default, auditable shared access, and joiner-mover-leaver flows that don’t add friction.

Cadieux is pragmatic about what’s next: evaluating controls that push posture checks closer to the edge and exploring deeper visibility into cloud services to manage risk and spend at scale. 

1Password is a key partner,” he says, and when the team trials new ideas, “we’re the perfect guinea pig because we push the boundaries… in the end it will raise the bar to make us all stronger.”

Most importantly, he works to build a culture of security by framing matters in language that speaks to individuals. “Ultimately, drivers want to win. You link security to what helps them win.”

The same holds for engineers, analysts, and operations personnel. Explain the risk in their terms, show how controls protect results, and make the secure path the fastest path. 

His playbook is clear without being complicated: dedicate the right resources, invest in culture so everyone has a role, pick partners who accelerate your team, and know what’s sensitive and protect it first. That’s how trust and access turn into lap time.

Cyber resilience as a competitive advantage

The team that once watched its screens go black now treats continuity as craft. From MK7 to the pit wall, Cadieux’s organization designs for failure, rehearses recovery, modernizes platforms, and scales trust across people, devices, and data. 

We’re a business on the edge, pushing boundaries is part of it.” 

Oracle Red Bull Racing balances speed and security with 1Password.

See how Oracle Red Bull Racing turns identity security into a performance advantage, centralizing credentials, speeding sign-ins, and strengthening governance beyond SSO. Read how savings and control translate into more focus on the car.

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