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 02/15/21!

The SolarWinds Saga Continues: Microsoft Estimates 1000 Developers Rewrote Code for the Attack

IT Operations

• The view from the top: IT spending could get better

• FinOps: Public cloud spend is seeing massive adoption

• 4 CIOs on the tools that got them through 2020

• Strategies CIOs can leverage to avoid cloud cost overrun

• How this startup aims to help firms control Google Cloud spending

• Veeam Google Cloud backup and recovery is now available!

Microsoft

• Microsoft moves closer to Windows 10 21H1 release; begins Beta channel testing

• Microsoft 365 adds new feature so remote staff with no internet don't lose access to apps

• Microsoft's Power BI gets new tools to prevent leakage of confidential data

• As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success?

• Microsoft is cutting Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC support from ten years to five

Cisco

• Secure workload protection: Extending micro perimeters and automation to enterprise IaaS

• A simpler way to move data from the network's edge to Amazon Web Services

• NetOp's evolution into the cloud

AWS

• How to continuously audit and limit security groups with AWS Firewall Manager

• Cisco, AWS integrate IoT, edge network software and services

• Amplify Flutter is now generally available: Build beautiful cross-platform apps

Security

• Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Azure, Exchange, and Intune source code

• Windows and Linux servers targeted by new WatchDog botnet for almost two years

• How to protect backups from ransomware

• Cybersecurity needs to be proactive with involvement from business leaders

• SolarWinds attack hit 100 companies and took months of planning, says White House

• How to protect your database against password leaks 

• Egregor ransomware group explained: And how to defend against it

• DDoS explained: How distributed denial of service attacks are evolving

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