Threats to today's networks continue to grow, with attacks coming from both outside and within corporate networks. These threats can have devastating effects, ranging from business disruption due to a network outage, financial risk resulting from information loss, or liability issues stemming from information tampering.

Using the world-class security and networking services provided by the Cisco® ASA 5500 Series Firewall Edition, businesses can securely deploy mission-critical applications and networks in a highly reliable manner.

The DigitalPersona Pro fingerprint identity solution enables deployment of strong passwords, secure communications, multi-factor authentication and transaction accountability for enterprises. With fingerprint readers becoming commonplace on enterprise notebooks, fingerprints can be used as the gatekeeper for access to enterprise data, applications and networks. A fingerprint solves security problems, such as social engineering attacks, which other credentials like passwords or tokens cannot. However, to realize such benefit, it cannot be left to each and every user to discover and configure fingerprint software and settings on their own. Security policies need to be centralized.

DigitalPersona Pro for Active Directory is designed from the ground up as an enterprise client/server solution, focused on the needs of the IT manager and business stakeholders. Pro integrates seamlessly into the enterprise Active Directory infrastructure to automate processes and controls for managing group policies for users and applications, and to ensure adherence to strong IT policies for compliance and auditing needs. Strong authentication policies can now be quickly and easily deployed with a single consistent identity protection system that aligns user privieges with business security needs.