Retail Gaint, GAP Inc. Direct, Utilizes Red Hat and Likewise for Security and Compliance of e-Commerce Sites and Back-End Production

The Gap. Inc. is a specialty retailing firm that operates more than 3.100 retail and outlet stores within the United States and internationally, rounded in 1969. The challenge was ensuring security and payment card industry compliance while managing system level access across the enterprise. That resulted in savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on reduced administrative and hardware costs associated with compliance and security requirements. Also, it benefited in compliance with PCI and SOX requirements through automatic authentication of users across a mixed systems environment.