Music Sales, the world’s largest online retailer of sheet music, is overhauling its security infrastructure to build online trust and meet European ecommerce regulations.

The firm plans to have a new hardware-based security platform by the end of the year to allow continued compliance with the EU Ecommerce Directive.

It is installing the FortiGate-1000A systems in the UK to boost its existing firewall and anti-virus security against network and content-based attacks.

‘Threats are shifting from old-fashioned viruses that we knew and understood to more sophisticated methods that are more difficult to trap,’ said John Herd, network manager at Music Sales.

‘A Department of Trade and Industry initiative ensures all ecommerce vendors above a certain level have to prove that they look at their log files, and that what they’re logging is unalterable once logged.

‘It’s a constant struggle to build consumer confidence, you have to prove that you’re whiter than white. The Fortinet FortiLog device is a standalone unit, so it enables us to give confidence both to the industry and to the customer,’ said Herd.

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