Security B-Sides panelists say passwords have outlived their usefulness. Multi-factor authentication would seem the easy answer, but here’s the problem. Attackers can also get around that with little trouble. Federated ID, which lets business partners automatically access each other’s networks, is often cited as one of the more ironclad options. The cost and complexity has led to far fewer federation implementations than experts predicted five years ago, panelists said. The other thing is to recognize that no method of authentication is 100-percent ironclad.”]