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This application offers centralised control and administration for Windows domain. It does this by putting all the essential tools needed to manage domains, computers, users and groups in one place.

USB portable storage devices (or "sticks" as otherwise known) have become very popular as a handy means of carrying around your data, but what happens when you misplace the device? How safe is your data? OK, you could encrypt all the files on the device, but many users will simply not bother.

DigitalPersona Pro (formerly U are U Pro) for Active Directory is now at version 3.0 (the vendor tells us version 3.1 is now available) and is as slick as ever in its presentation, installation and general ease of use.

This might appear to be a slightly unusual product to include in this group test, but it qualifies as a potential biometric due to the use of signature verification, or fingerprints where applicable.

Saflink is a well-known and well-respected company within the biometrics arena, with many successful customized implementations to its credit. It seems like a natural progression, therefore, for it to bring its experience and expertise to the broader commercial product area.

This device is an exquisite little fingerprint reader with immediate visual and tactile appeal. Manufactured in Korea, it has been cleverly designed to offer flexibility of placement.

The SecuGen Mouse takes a different approach to providing fingerprint biometric logon facilities, in that it combines a good-quality optical fingerprint reader with an equally good-quality optical mouse.

A lot of companies are shouting that the next big threat to organizations will come from within – a problem that security professionals have known about for a very long time. As long as people are fallible, they will be tempted to look at things they shouldn't or steal things from the companies they work for. So with that in mind, something should be done to keep data from slipping out in pockets and handbags.

No security professional in their right mind would consider embarking on installing wireless access points (APs) in the enterprise without making sure they had some form of protection.

As wireless networks grow in popularity, many security professionals are justly worried about the ease in which non-technical users can set up and operate wireless networks. Also securing wireless infrastructures can be tricky, because the set up of wireless networks can be problematical and not as secure as one might think.

Set any group of business IT users talking and it will not be long before the subject of passwords and application access control crops up. The "I have more passwords than you" debate will then take place, followed by some imaginative suggestions for getting around the system, together with colorful observations about the relative effectiveness of passwords in any event.