Federal agencies that provide electronic services to the public must walk something of a privacy tight rope, striking the technologically complicated balance between security and usability for their systems.

But Jeremy Grant, senior executive advisor for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, thinks he knows the first step toward finding a solution.

“Passwords aren’t dead, but they should be shot,” Grant said Nov. 14 at a federal identity and access management conference in Washington.

Read more at FCW – First thing we do, let’s kill all the passwords