Purewire Web Security Service Removes Internet-Based Threats for Shelor Motor Mile
Automotive Dealership Benefits from Ease of Use, Granular Reporting and Effectiveness of SaaS Offering
ATLANTA (BUSINESS WIRE) - Purewire, Inc., a SaaS-based secure Web gateway provider that protects business and social interactions on the Web, today announced that Shelor Motor Mile (Shelor), a 75-acre campus of automotive stores and service centers that includes the Motor Mile Speedway and Motor Mile Dragway, has selected the Purewire Web Security Service to protect its employees as they browse the Web.
Shelor deployed various URL filtering solutions over the past 10 years and decided to use its annual security contract renewal as an opportunity to upgrade the company’s overall security posture. After careful evaluation, Shelor selected Purewire, combining dynamic URL classification with anti-virus/anti-malware capabilities. As an immediate result of implementing Purewire, the IT team receives far fewer help desk calls from employees requesting access to blocked sites.
“With a three-person team managing the entire IT infrastructure, we need easy-to-use and cost effective solutions,” said Don Hanauer, systems administrator at Shelor Motor Mile. “We investigated SaaS-based solutions for Web security in order to avoid installing more hardware and software. Purewire is extremely easy to implement, configure and manage, did not require the purchase of any additional hardware, fits seamlessly into our existing system and the price was right.”
Using the Purewire Web Security Service, Shelor Motor Mile inspects both inbound and outbound Web traffic for safety and compliance, and has visibility into users’ Web activity through comprehensive, flexible reporting. Shelor can set Web access policies and assign those policies to users or groups based on Purewire’s seamless Active Directory integration.
“Security is a top concern for all companies, but it can be especially challenging for mid-size businesses with a small IT department,” said Glenn Esposito, director of sales for Purewire. “The Purewire Web Security Service is an ideal solution for Shelor because they can provide complete protection for employees browsing the Web without having to invest in new hardware or use IT resources to manage a complex, cumbersome system. In addition, the SaaS model allows IT staff to login and manage Web security from anywhere, inside any of Shelor’s 10 sales and service locations or remotely.”
About Shelor Motor Mile
The Shelor Automotive Group began over 35 years ago, in 1974, as a single-line Chevrolet store. Over the years, Shelor has grown to 9 new car and truck brands, recreational vehicles, trailers and hundreds of quality pre-owned vehicles to become the volume automotive store of southwestern Virginia known as the Shelor Motor Mile.
About Purewire, Inc.
Purewire secures business and social interactions on the Web. Founded by veteran security industry entrepreneurs, the company offers Web security-as-a-service to increase ROI and lower the total cost of security for businesses. Purewire is the only vendor that addresses the complete Web security threat landscape, providing unique algorithms and scalable services to protect users from malicious people, places and things on the Web™. Purewire has received a number of industry accolades and was named a “Cool Vendor in Software-as-a-Service Security” in March 2009 by Gartner Inc. For more information, please visit www.purewire.com.
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