If you had a busy week and need to catch up, here’s our recap of tech stories you may have missed the week of 01/31/22!

IT Operations

• Cloud-computing spending just hit another huge milestone

• Remote work causing security issues for system and IT administrators

• 9 ways CIOs will fail to support hybrid work in 2022

• 5 steps in finding value in the cloud

• A tsunami of IT project disasters is on the horizon

Microsoft

• Managing security in hybrid Windows 11 and Windows 10 environments

• Rightsize to maximize your cloud investment with Microsoft Azure

• Hybrid work and the year ahead

• How Microsoft made Azure SQL more available by making recovery faster

• Microsoft: Here's how Windows 11 will get new features

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now spots unpatched bugs in iOS and Android devices

• From empowering frontline workers to accessibility improvements–here's what's new in Microsoft 365

VMware

• VMware Horizon now supports Samsung DeX on flagship Galaxy devices

Cisco

• Cisco announces Wi-Fi 6E, private 5G to assist with hybrid work

• Trio of RCE CVSS 10 vulnerabilities among 15 CVEs in Cisco small business routers

• Cisco SD-WAN expands Microsoft 365 integration with informed network routing for Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

• Cisco launches APs, switches to enhance hybrid workplaces

AWS

• AWS adds Dropbox and HelloSign to its marketplace

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service adds IPv6 Networking

• New - Replication for Amazon Elastic File System

• A new AWS Console home experience

Security

• Iranian APT group uses previously undocumented Trojan for destructive access to organizations

• CISA issues advisory warning of critical vulnerabilities in Airspan Networks Mimosa

• Symantec finds evidence of continued Russian hacking campaigns in Ukraine

• Are IT and OT losing the ransomware battle?

• Apple AirTag and other tagging devices add to CISO worries

• More companies are using multi-factor authentication. Hackers are looking for a way to beat it.

• Operation EmailThief: Zero-day XSS vulnerability in Zimbra email platform revealed

• White House creates board to review cybersecurity incidents, members to start with Log4J

• Prosecutors investigating cyberattacks affecting multiple Belgian and Dutch ports

• Kaspersky stopped more than 30,000 attempts to use the Log4Shell exploit in January

• NPM JavaScript registry suffers massive influx of malware, report says