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 02/21/22!

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

IT Operations

• 6 ways to restructure IT for maximum productivity

• Culture, technical barriers hinder IT asset management

• CIOs tout guardrails as prevention for shadow IT woes

• Data-center network automation: Its pitfalls and how to avoid them

• Why multicloud environments can help improve security and redundancy

• 5 ITSM hurdles and how to overcome them

• The IT thought leader's guide to the future of work

Microsoft

• Microsoft updates security applications for multicloud environments

• Machine learning: The AIOps system Azure uses to make the cloud reliable

• Microsoft's multicloud security is about connecting the dots

VMware

• 4 recommendations to unite developer and security teams

• Zero Trust Security: A dynamic approach for government agencies

Cisco

• Cisco tells firewall users to update now or potentially miss vital security updates

• Cisco IDs top 2022 security threats and what to do about them

AWS

• Introducing Ghostbuster - AWS security tool protects against dangling elastic IP takeovers

• Creating a scalable disaster recovery plan with AWS Elastic Disaster

• AWS signs cloud innovation deal with owner of Toronto Maple Leads, Raptors, FC and Argonauts

Security

• CISOs, beware of spyware tools for illicit competitive intelligence

• Botnets, data wiping malware spread as Ukraine incursion begins

• Cybersecurity burnout is real. And it's going to be a problem for all of us

• Conti ransomware attack on Irish healthcare system may cost over $100 million

• This new ransomware has been spotted in two very different attacks, say researchers

• Salesforce paid more than $2.8 million in 2021 bug bounties, $12.2 million since 2015

• NIST seeks information on updating its Cybersecurity Framework
  

• Ransomware is top attack vector on critical infrastructure

• Ransomware victims are paying up. But then the gangs are coming back for more

• Ukrainian gov't sites disrupted by DDoS, wiper malware discovered

• Fortinet: Log4j had nearly 50x activity volume of ProxyLogon

• Hackers tried to shatter the spine of global supply chains in 2021

• Asia most targeted region in 2021, taking on one in four cybersecurity attacks