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 02/14/22!

On-Demand CIO Webcast: Why Cybersecurity Must Start at the Top

IT Operations

• 3 key issues faced by CIOs and IT executives

• Data-center spending is half that of cloud services

• Security strategies evolve while spending flatlines

• CIOs tout guardrails as prevention for shadow IT woes

• Banks, late to the game, double down on the cloud

• Russia's offensive cyber actions should be a cause for concern for CISOs

Microsoft

• US Government sets forth Zero Trust architecture strategy and requirements

• How Nokia is using Azure Arc to empower customers in a multicloud world

• Microsoft aims to improve anti-phishing MFA for White House 'zero trust' push

• What's new in Microsoft's Sentinel cloud SIEM

VMware

• VMware patches released for vulnerabilities found during China's Tianfu Cup

• Announcing the general availability of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5

Cisco

• Network as a Service: A simpler path to the latest technology

• Innovation powered by Cisco Business Critical Services for greater visibility and flexibility

• There's much to love about SASE

AWS

• New - Amazon EC2 C6a Instances powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Compute-Intensive Workloads

• Multi-Region Migration using AWS Application Migration Service

• Announcing Amazon Redshift Cross-region data sharing

• AWS plans major Local Zones expansion to deliver ultra-low latency globally

Security

• New RCE flaw added to Adobe Commerce, Magneto security advisory

• Vulnerability found in WordPress plugin with over 3 million installations

• BlackBerry report reveals SMBs face increased threat of cybercrime

• Researchers discover common threat actor behind aviation and defense malware campaigns

• Ukraine Ministry of Defense confirms DDoS attack; state banks lose connectivity

• Report: Pretty much every type of cyberattack increased in 2021

• Cyberattack threat: Corporate users infected via Microsoft Teams

• Red Cross traces hack back to unpatched Zoho vulnerability

• Ukraine crisis: Russian cyberattacks could affect organizations around the world, so take action now

• AWS's AI code reviewer now spots Log4Shell-like bugs in Java and Python code

• Microsoft warns of emerging 'ice phishing' threat on blockchain, DeFi networks

• Critical SAP vulnerabilities spur CISA, researcher please for urgent patching