Passwords are great authentication credentials. They're portable, they're well structured, and they're nearly universally available in all modern software. However, passwords are often the one part of a system that lead to a complete breakdown of security. The loss of the hashed credential store for a website can lead to the compromise of thousands of accounts both on the local site as well as any site the user shared the same username and password. Advances in password cracking technology have made even relatively complex passwords easy to defeat.
This panel will try to get to the bottom of the password problem. Passwords are still necessary, but how effective are they really? Through the demonstration of new tools, hard data about password complexity in modern enterprises, and new techniques for hashing and protecting passwords, this panel of experts may just change your opinion on passwords. Or they may scare you in to two factor auth...