Keeping E-Business Safe and Secure
NETGEAR® STM Stream Scanning Technology Provides Unity Electronics with Peace of Mind

Industry: E-Tailer

Unity Electronics (www.unityelectronics.com ) is an online retailer of electronic products, digital devices, notebooks, desktops, cell phones, and computer parts. Unity Electronics averages over 100,000 transactions per month, ships to over 20 countries worldwide, and advertises on over 100 Web sites. The company's headquarters is located in Union City, California. Unity Electronics also has warehouses in Cupertino, California, and a Customer Care Center in San Jose, California.

Background

Russ Hedgpeth, CEO of Unity Electronics, also oversees the company's IT infrastructure. Unity Electronics' headquarters has 25 users on the network going through 2 business class DSL lines. Users on their network spend a majority of their time browsing price search engine sites such as Pricegrabber, Froogle, Pricewatch, and Nextag. On average, employees at Unity Electronics spend two hours a day on search engine sites, looking up competitive pricing information, which leaves them vulnerable and exposed to malware and attacks from the Web. Web use and Web presence is mission critical infrastructure for any online retailer. Moreover, with customer information and other sensitive data kept on user computers, it is critical that their workstations are kept clean and malware free. Although Unity Electronics had desktop anti-virus programs installed on every PC, their computing infrastructure was still occasionally getting infected with malware.