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Friday’s Briefing · January 30

Professional Security Magazine, Saturday, January 24th, 2026

SASE Maturity Gap

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has quickly become one of the most talked‑about frameworks in enterprise networking and security, says Dave McGrail, Head of Business Consultancy at Xalient. more →

SASE Maturity Gap

Security Week, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Why Identity Security Must Move Beyond MFA

By integrating identity threat detection with MFA, organizations can protect sensitive data, maintain operational continuity, and reduce risk exposure. more →

Why Identity Security Must Move Beyond MFA

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Architecting Enterprise Readiness: Why SAML Still Wins the B2B Auth War

It's 2025 and we are still arguing about xml tags while the rest of the world has moved on to json and sleek oidc flows. You'd think a tech stack from the early 2000s would be dead by now, but in the world of enterprise identity, saml is basically the cockroach that won't quit. more →

Architecting Enterprise Readiness: Why SAML Still Wins the B2B Auth War

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Authentication Platform Comparison: Best Authentication Systems & Tools For Your Business

The digital landscape is changing fast, and if you're looking at your career options, cybersecurity is basically the only place where the demand is literally "much faster than average." We're talking about a 29% growth rate through 2034 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics-a source that tracks how many new analysts we'll actually need (about 16,000 every year). more →

Authentication Platform Comparison: Best Authentication Systems & Tools For Your Business

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Extended Detection And Response (XDR): A New Era In Cybersecurity

The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and so are the threats that target organizations. With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated and diverse, traditional security solutions often struggle to keep up. Businesses today need a more unified, proactive, and intelligent approach to detect and respond to threats. This is where Extended Detection and Response (XDR) comes into play. more →

Extended Detection And Response (XDR): A New Era In Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

How ASPM Protects Cloud-Native Applications From Misconfigurations And Exploits

Cloud-native applications have changed how businesses build and scale software. Microservices, containers, and serverless architectures enable faster and more flexible development, but they also make the environment more challenging to secure. Misconfigurations have quietly become one of the biggest security risks. According to a report, approximately 40% of breaches involve data spread across multiple cloud environments, often resulting from simple configuration mistakes. more →

How ASPM Protects Cloud-Native Applications From Misconfigurations And Exploits

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Can AI Manage Cloud Security Effectively?

How do organizations ensure that their cloud environments are not just secure but intelligently managed? The answer lies in understanding the potential of AI in cloud security. With machines become predominant players in our IT infrastructure, the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) has emerged as a pivotal strategy for securing clouds. more →

Can AI Manage Cloud Security Effectively?

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Can Managing NHIs Keep Companies Ahead In Cybersecurity?

Have you ever considered the risks associated with the identities of machines in your network? With cybersecurity professionals continue to confront increasingly complex threats, a crucial, often overlooked area is the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their associated secrets. Integrating NHI management into an organization's cybersecurity strategy is essential for bridging the security gaps between innovation and protection. more →

Can Managing NHIs Keep Companies Ahead In Cybersecurity?

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

How Are Non-Humans Identities Protected?

Where technology drives growth and innovation, are we adequately securing the machine identities that power our digital? Non-human identities (NHIs), encompassing machine identities like APIs, service accounts, and IoT devices, play a pivotal role in modern cybersecurity architectures. Yet, their management often lags behind due to a disconnect between security and R&D teams, especially in organizations leveraging cloud environments. more →

How Are Non-Humans Identities Protected?

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

How Do NHIs Empower Agile Cybersecurity Strategies?

Have you ever considered how machine identities, or Non-Human Identities (NHIs), impact cybersecurity in cloud environments? NHIs act as the digital passports for machines, governing how they interact with systems and data. With organizations increasingly relying on automated systems and cloud-based services, effective NHI management is more crucial than ever. We will explore the strategic importance of NHIs and how they empower agile cybersecurity strategies. more →

How Do NHIs Empower Agile Cybersecurity Strategies?

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

How To Scale NHIs Safely And Efficiently?

Scaling Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is a complex endeavor, particularly in dynamic industries such as financial services, healthcare, and technology-driven sectors that rely heavily on cloud computing. Where NHIs serve as the backbone for automation, the question becomes: how can organizations use NHI management to achieve efficient scaling while ensuring robust security measures? more →

How To Scale NHIs Safely And Efficiently?

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

What Makes NHIs Safe For My Company?

Have you ever considered who-or rather, what-is accessing your company's data? While we often focus on human users in cybersecurity strategies, non-human identities (NHIs) play a pivotal role in security architecture today. more →

What Makes NHIs Safe For My Company?

eWeek, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

7 Practical Ways To Build Real AI Skills In 2026

AI keeps popping up in every corner of work life, and it's becoming the skill people use to run circles around everyone else. You don't need to be a coder or a tech diehard to get value out of it, but you do need to understand how it fits into the way you solve problems. The ones who pick it up early usually land the faster workflows, the better ideas, and, often, the better roles. more →

7 Practical Ways To Build Real AI Skills In 2026

HPCwire, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

The AI Skills Gap Is Not What Companies Think It Is

There is a shortage of AI talent. Companies are not able to close the AI skills gap. These are familiar headlines from job market outlook reports over the last year or so. Many companies think that this is a supply or talent problem. more →

The AI Skills Gap Is Not What Companies Think It Is

Analytics Insight, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Top 5 AI Certifications For 'Freshers'

What Are AI Certifications?: AI certifications are structured learning credentials that validate foundational and practical skills in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data handling, and real-world problem-solving. more →

Top 5 AI Certifications For 'Freshers'

SC Media, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

AWS Debuts EU Sovereign Cloud For Data Residency

Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of its European Sovereign Cloud, a physically and logically isolated infrastructure region operated entirely within the European Union to address stringent data residency and sovereignty requirements, according to The Register. more →

AWS Debuts EU Sovereign Cloud For Data Residency

Bitdefender, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Why External Cybersecurity Reviews Reveal What Internal Teams Miss

In today's threat landscape-where ransomware, phishing, and supply chain attacks evolve faster than most teams can patch-a cybersecurity review isn't just a checkbox exercise. It's a critical opportunity to uncover blind spots before attackers do, and it also maps vulnerabilities to business impact, helping teams justify future investments. more →

Why External Cybersecurity Reviews Reveal What Internal Teams Miss

Check Point, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Attackers Continue To Target Trusted Collaboration Platforms: 12,000+ Emails Target Teams Users

This report describes a phishing campaign in which attackers abuse Microsoft Teams functionality to distribute phishing content that appears to originate from legitimate Microsoft services. The attack leverages guest invitations and phishing-themed team names to impersonate billing and subscription notifications, encouraging victims to contact a fraudulent support phone number. more →

Attackers Continue To Target Trusted Collaboration Platforms: 12,000+ Emails Target Teams Users

Check Point, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Why Exposure Management Is Becoming A Security Imperative

Of course, organizations see risk. It's just that they struggle to turn insight into timely, safe action. That gap is why exposure management has emerged, and also why it is now becoming a foundational security discipline. more →

Why Exposure Management Is Becoming A Security Imperative

Red Hat, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Understanding Security Embargoes At Red Hat

Within Red Hat's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) framework, an embargo is a strictly-defined window of time during which a security vulnerability is known only to a small group of trusted parties before being made public, including the vulnerability reporter and the relevant upstream community and partners. more →

Understanding Security Embargoes At Red Hat

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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