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News•Jan 30, 2026
Top 10 B2B Healthcare SaaS SSO Solutions in 2026
Healthcare SaaS vendors now face a non‑negotiable requirement: integrate Single Sign‑On with hospital identity providers to secure access and meet procurement standards. Data breaches in the sector average $12 million per incident, driving CISOs to demand instant revocation and compliance‑ready authentication. Building SAML, OIDC, and SCIM connections consumes 6‑12 weeks of senior engineering per provider, creating a costly bottleneck for startups. The guide ranks the top ten SSO solutions, from startup‑focused SSOJet to enterprise stalwarts like Okta and Microsoft Entra ID, outlining pricing, features, and compliance support.
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 30, 2026
Why Passwordless Authentication Is Critical for Online Learning & Student Services
Online learning has become core campus infrastructure, but passwords remain the weakest link, exposing grades, payments, and personal data. Passwordless authentication replaces reusable secrets with device‑bound credentials such as passkeys, security keys, magic links, OTPs, and push approvals. The shift...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 30, 2026
Helpdesk Impersonation: A High-Risk Social Engineering Attack
Helpdesk impersonation is a social‑engineering technique where attackers pose as employees or partners to trick IT support staff into granting unauthorized access. By leveraging publicly available information and urgency cues, they can obtain password resets, MFA device changes, and privileged...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 30, 2026
Top 5 PCI Compliant Hosting Providers
The article outlines the five leading PCI‑compliant hosting providers—AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, and specialized PCI hosts—explaining how each aligns its infrastructure with PCI DSS requirements. It emphasizes the shared‑responsibility model, where providers manage the underlying hardware while...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Measuring Agentic AI Posture: A New Metric for CISOs
The episode introduces a new metric—Agentic AI Posture—to help CISOs assess readiness against fast‑moving AI‑driven threats, arguing that traditional security metrics like MTTR are insufficient. It outlines three pillars for measuring AI readiness: Visibility Ratio (tracking shadow agents and API...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Still Trying to Reduce Technical Debt Manually?
In this episode, Azul discusses the growing challenge of technical debt in Java applications, especially as Java versions approach end‑of‑support windows. It outlines manual best practices—such as educating product owners, modular architecture, automated testing, and maintaining a debt register—alongside governance...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Moltbot Personal Assistant Goes Viral—And So Do Your Secrets
The episode dives into Moltbot, an open‑source, self‑hosted AI personal assistant that surged in popularity in January 2026, amassing tens of thousands of GitHub stars and forks. While its powerful automation capabilities are praised, the hosts reveal a wave of...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
NDSS 2025 – TrajDeleter: Enabling Trajectory Forgetting In Offline Reinforcement Learning Agents
The episode discusses TrajDeleter, a novel method for trajectory unlearning in offline reinforcement learning (RL) agents, presented by researchers from the University of Virginia and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. TrajDeleter trains agents to degrade performance on states from specific,...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Employment Fraud & Hiring Risk: When Access Becomes Risk
The episode explores how employment fraud transforms hiring into a security risk, highlighting that in today’s remote, AI‑driven workforce, malicious actors can fabricate identities and gain trusted access before any internal controls engage. It explains that static background checks are...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Why Protecting Your Phone Number Matters for Online Security
Phone numbers are increasingly used as digital identifiers for account recovery, two‑factor authentication, and user verification, making them a prime target for attackers. The article outlines how numbers become publicly accessible through social profiles, directories, data breaches, and app permissions....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Real-Time Blackhole List – How to Remove an IP From It?
Email senders increasingly encounter DNS‑based Real‑Time Blackhole Lists that block IPs suspected of spam, phishing, or compromised servers. When an IP lands on a blacklist, major ESPs reject or filter messages, causing bounce errors, silent drops, and plummeting engagement metrics....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
NSFOCUS Unveils Enhanced AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix for Holistic AI Security Governance
NSFOCUS announced an upgraded AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix, adding 14 new threat categories that focus on AI agent, multimodal, and Multi‑Agent Communication Protocol (MCP) vulnerabilities. The matrix expands coverage across identity, application, model, data, and infrastructure security throughout the...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Radware Acquires Pynt to Add API Security Testing Tool
Radware announced the acquisition of Pynt, a specialist in API security testing tools, to broaden its API protection portfolio. The Pynt suite will remain available as a standalone product while being tightly integrated into Radware’s existing API Security Service. This...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
NDSS 2025 – Recurrent Private Set Intersection For Unbalanced Databases With Cuckoo Hashing
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi introduced a recurrent Private Set Intersection (PSI) protocol tailored for unbalanced databases. The solution combines leveled Fully Homomorphic Encryption with cuckoo hashing, delivering real‑time performance for repeated small‑set queries against a large set. Benchmarks using...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Survey Surfaces Lots of Room for DevSecOps Improvement
A new UserEvidence survey of 506 security leaders reveals that while 80% of organizations have security and DevOps teams sharing observability tools, only 45% feel the teams are very aligned on tooling and workflows. Most respondents (93%) use three or...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
SSO Vs. Federated Identity Management: A Guide
Modern enterprises face escalating identity challenges as employees and automated workloads proliferate across SaaS, micro‑services, and multi‑cloud environments. Single Sign‑On (SSO) centralizes human authentication, reducing password fatigue and providing a unified audit trail, while federated identity extends access across organizational...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Student Data at Risk: What the Victoria Education Breach Exposes About Public Sector Security
The Victoria Department of Education suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of current and former students, prompting a privacy investigation. The breach highlighted longstanding issues in public‑sector access governance, such as dormant accounts and overly broad permissions. Attackers...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
What Are Service Accounts and Why Are They a Security Risk?
Service accounts are non‑human identities that power cloud, container and CI/CD workloads, but they often rely on static, long‑lived credentials. Over‑privileged and poorly managed accounts generate a majority of cloud security alerts and have been leveraged in high‑profile breaches such...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
NDSS 2025 – Iris: Dynamic Privacy Preserving Search In Authenticated Chord Peer-To-Peer Networks
The NDSS 2025 paper introduces Iris, a scheme that enables privacy‑preserving searches in authenticated Chord peer‑to‑peer networks while remaining compatible with the existing protocol. Iris defines a new alpha‑delta privacy notion, extending k‑anonymity to protect query information across iterative hops....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Why “Platform Consolidation” Often Increases Risk Instead of Reducing It
Enterprises chase security‑stack consolidation to cut costs and simplify management, but most vendor‑driven platforms are built from acquired point solutions rather than unified architectures. This commercial consolidation delivers single contracts yet leaves fragmented data stores, disparate analytics, and multiple agents,...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Citizen Engagement Strategies Powered by CIAM
Citizen engagement is now driven by digital experiences, and fragmented login processes are the primary barrier. The article argues that Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is essential for municipalities to centralize services, provide a single digital identity, and build...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Customer Identity Management for Cruise Customer Experience
Cruise operators are shifting focus from flashy onboard attractions to the invisible infrastructure that links every guest interaction. By deploying consumer identity and access management (CIAM), brands can maintain a single, secure passenger profile from discovery through post‑cruise loyalty. This...
By Security Boulevard
Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Radware Acquires Pynt to Bolster API Security Testing
Radware announced this week that it has acquired Pynt, a provider of API security testing tools. The acquisition will expand Radware's API security platform with design and testing capabilities, enhancing its offering for cybersecurity teams.
Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue
Recent incidents across healthcare, finance, and infrastructure reveal attackers exploiting lateral movement to maintain long‑term footholds. In Belgium a hospital shut down its servers after an undetected breach, while U.S. health providers endured weeks‑long unauthorized access. Phishing and malicious browser...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
NDSS 2025 – On the Robustness Of LDP Protocols For Numerical Attributes Under Data Poisoning Attacks
The NDSS 2025 paper investigates how local differential privacy (LDP) protocols for numerical attributes can be subverted by data‑poisoning attacks, where a small set of malicious clients manipulates server estimates. Researchers evaluate state‑of‑the‑art categorical frequency oracles, binning, consistency, and distribution‑reconstruction...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
How Data Masking & Synthesis Support Zero Trust
Zero Trust demands continuous verification of every access request, extending the principle of least‑privilege to the data layer. Data masking swaps sensitive values with realistic stand‑ins, while synthetic data creates entirely fictitious records that retain statistical fidelity. Together they shrink...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Responding to Exposed Secrets – An SRE’s Incident Response Playbook
The article outlines an SRE‑focused incident‑response playbook for handling exposed secrets, starting with thorough preparation—defining goals, roles, and communication protocols. It details detection techniques such as API usage anomalies, IAM activity monitoring, and automated code‑scanning integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Once...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Top AI Technology & Cybersecurity Podcasts to Follow in 2026
The article curates a list of essential AI and cybersecurity podcasts for 2026, highlighting shows that deliver deep technical insight, business strategy, and security expertise. It emphasizes the rise of AI agents, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI security...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
You See an Email Ending in .eu.org. Must Be Legit, Right?
The article warns that email addresses ending in .eu.org, while appearing institutional, are increasingly used by disposable‑email services to evade reputation checks. .eu.org is a free sub‑domain service, not a conventional top‑level domain, and its open registration lets fraudsters host...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Teleport Launches Framework to Secure Identities of AI Agents
Teleport unveiled its Agentic Identity Framework, a zero‑trust solution that secures AI agents without relying on static passwords or secrets. The platform builds on Teleport’s existing IAM technology, using a hardware root of trust to create cryptographic identities that are...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
What It Doxxing? How It Happens, and How to Stay Safe?
The article defines doxxing as the public disclosure of private personal data without consent, highlighting that over 43 million Americans have been targeted and 90 % of cases reveal the victim’s address. It outlines how doxxers gather information from public records, data...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Why Cyber Fusion Centers and Zero-Trust Work Better Together
The surge in zero‑trust adoption has not delivered expected protection, as static implementations struggle against zero‑day exploits and a rapidly evolving threat landscape. A leading bank that integrated a cyber fusion center (CFC) with zero‑trust achieved 65% automated incident responses...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Critical CERT-In Advisories – January 2026: SAP, Microsoft, and Atlassian Vulnerabilities
January 2026 saw CERT‑In publish three critical advisories targeting SAP, Microsoft, and Atlassian products. The alerts disclose high‑severity flaws—including remote code execution, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration—affecting SAP S/4HANA, Windows, Azure, and on‑premise Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence. One...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Clawdbot-Style Agentic Assistants: What Your SOC Should Monitor, Triage, and Contain
Agentic AI assistants such as Clawdbot are moving from simple chatbots to persistent, privileged entities that can act across Slack, Teams, Discord and other platforms. Their ability to retain context, execute commands, and use user‑provided API keys creates new attack...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 27, 2026
Single Sign-On Account Management in App Stores
App store identities remain fragmented, with developers often using personal emails that expose enterprises to lockout and breach risks. Managed Apple IDs and Enterprise Google accounts tether accounts to corporate domains, ensuring the organization retains control. The industry is moving...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
The 7 Essential Elements of a Compliance Framework You Need to Know
The article outlines a seven‑element compliance framework that moves organizations from ad‑hoc checklists to a systematic operating model. It emphasizes leadership governance, risk assessment, policy translation, controls, training, monitoring, and issue management as interlocking components. By aligning these elements, firms...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
How MSSPs Can Help Clients Mitigate Shadow IT and Data Sprawl with Cavelo
MSSPs face growing risk from shadow IT and data sprawl as hybrid work and SaaS adoption push data into unmanaged cloud locations. Unapproved applications and fragmented data increase attack surface, compliance exposure, and incident‑response delays. Cavelo offers an agent‑less, multi‑tenant...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
NDSS 2025 – All Your (Data)base Are Belong to Us: Characterizing Database Ransom(ware) Attacks
Researchers at the IMDEA Software Institute delivered the first systematic analysis of database ransomware attacks, examining 23,736 ransom notes from 60,427 compromised servers over three years. Their honeypot experiments showed new infections rising 60% year‑over‑year, with 6,000 fresh victims in...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
Why MSPs Should Add Privileged Access Management (PAM) To Their Security Offerings
Managed service providers (MSPs) are urged to add Privileged Access Management (PAM) to their portfolios as identity‑based attacks surge, with data breaches up 72% since 2021. PAM dovetails with Zero Trust principles, securing administrative credentials that attackers most often target....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol: Why the Future of Agentic Commerce Depends on Security
The episode examines Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open‑source standard designed to unify AI‑driven shopping across retailers and payment providers. It highlights UCP’s advantages—single‑point integration, leverage of Google Merchant Center, modular flexibility, and merchant‑first control—while noting the competitive landscape...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
NDSS 2025 – ERW-Radar
The episode delves into ERW‑Radar, a novel detection system designed to combat evasive ransomware by leveraging the unique repetitive I/O patterns ransomware exhibits during encryption and statistical analysis of encrypted byte streams. The authors—Lingbo Zhao, Yuhui Zhang, Zhilu Wang, Fengkai...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
APT Attacks Target Indian Government Using GOGITTER, GITSHELLPAD, and GOSHELL | Part 1
In September 2025 Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered two Pakistan-linked APT campaigns, Gopher Strike and Sheet Attack, targeting Indian government entities. Gopher Strike delivers malicious PDFs that trigger ISO downloads, employing a new Golang downloader called GOGITTER, a lightweight backdoor GITSHELLPAD that...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
Wiz Found It. Swimlane Fixed It. The Cloud Security Power Play
Cloud security teams face alert fatigue, drowning in critical notifications that outpace manual response. Wiz, a cloud risk visibility leader, has partnered with Swimlane’s Turbine agentic‑AI to turn detection into automated remediation. The integration pulls Wiz telemetry, enriches it with...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
F5 Strengthens, Scales & Sustains AI Security With Integrated Runtime Protection
In this episode Adrian Bridgwater discusses F5’s new AI security offerings—AI Guardrails and AI Red Team—designed to protect enterprise AI models throughout their lifecycle. The Guardrails provide both out‑of‑the‑box and custom‑built runtime protections that enforce policies, prevent data leaks, and...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 26, 2026
The New ATO Playbook: Session Hijacking, MFA Bypass, and Credential Abuse Trends for 2026
In this episode Jason Wagner outlines how account takeover (ATO) has shifted from brute‑force logins to stealthy session hijacking, MFA fatigue, and credential reuse tied to real identities. He explains that attackers now harvest active session tokens and device fingerprints,...
By Security Boulevard
Deals•Jan 18, 2026
Merge Labs Raises $252M to Link Brains and Computers
Merge Labs, a brain‑computer interface startup co‑founded by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman, announced a $252 million fundraising round to develop devices that connect human brains to computers. The capital will be used to advance medical applications before expanding to consumer products.
Security Boulevard
Deals•Jan 18, 2026
ICE Acquires Tangles Social‑Media Monitoring Tool to Boost Surveillance
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has recently acquired the social‑media monitoring tool Tangles, expanding its surveillance capabilities. The acquisition, highlighted in a recent report, complements ICE's existing system that includes the Webloc tool. Deal terms and value were not...
Security Boulevard