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 02/08/21!

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IT Operations

• How COVID-19 is shaping enterprise networking

• Zoom updates anticipate a hybrid workforce

• AWS, IBM, Google, and Microsoft are taking AI from 1.0 to 2.0, according to Forrester

• Key ways to embrace the hybrid cloud

• This cutting-edge cloud-computing service is helping researchers track COVID's spread.

• IBM, Palantir partner to operationalize AI deployments

• Why Global Payments went multi-cloud

Microsoft

• Microsoft to add 'nation-state activity alerts' to Defender for Office 365

• Microsoft is going to have lots of clouds for industries. Here's why they matter

• Microsoft to add new webinar and 'meeting intelligence' capabilities to Teams via Teams Pro

• Windows 10 20H2 new build for Insiders brings lots of fixes

• Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 56 bugs, including Windows zero-day

• Microsoft sets deadline for the end of support of IE 11 by 365 apps

• Starting Feb 9th, Microsoft enforces Secure RPC with Netlogon Secure Channel-What does that mean?

VMware

• Evolving the VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guides

• How a multi-cloud strategy can simplify your path to the cloud

Cisco

• Cisco AppDynamics software melds security, application management

• Vistara Airlines builds resilience with Cisco SD-WAN

AWS

• AWS and NHL partner to turn game data into new ways of experiencing hockey

• Mitigate data leakage through the use of AppStream 2.0 and end-to-end auditing

• Orchestrating database refreshes for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora

Security

• 177% increase: Hackers grabbed 21.3 million healthcare records in the second half of 2020

• Top 5 reasons not to use fear to encourage security compliance 

• World Economic Forum calls cybersecurity one of the "key threats of the next decade"

• FBI, Secret Service investigating cyber attack on Florida water treatment plant

• Working at a safe distance, safely: remote work and industrial sites brings extra cyber risk

• This old security vulnerability left millions of Internet of Things devices vulnerable to attacks

• Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique

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