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 03/14/22!

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

IT Operations

• Businesses centralize cloud strategy, prioritize influence over control

• The four main aspects of successful DevOps teams

• Get ready for Machine Learning Ops

• Security alerts from multiple cloud vendors are overwhelming IT professionals

• Innovating for the Future: 4 public sector priorities for 2022

• What is hyperconvergence?

Microsoft

• How to work with virtual desktops in Windows 11

• Microsoft Teams turns five. What's next?

• Power BI March 2022 feature summary

• Microsoft to update Teams and Outlook with features aimed at hybrid workers

VMware

• Google Cloud and VMware expand global partnership to help enterprises accelerate App Modernization and Cloud Transformation

• Industry Voice: Solving network challenges with VMware SD-WAN

Cisco

• Continuity and recovery on the path towards resiliency

• Cisco and NetApp upgrade their converged-infrastructure platform for hybrid cloud

• Cisco Secure Endpoint goes Pro

• United Software Tracing comes to Cisco IOS XE - it's unified, binary, streaming, and highly scalable

AWS

• AWS Week in Review - March 14, 2022

• New and updated AWS Well-Architected Lenses

• New – Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn Instances for Memory-Intensive Workloads with Higher Network Bandwidth

Security

• FBI and CISA warn over threats to satellite communication networks

• 76,000 online scams taken down after tip-offs to suspicious email reporting service

• These four types of ransomware make up nearly three-quarters of reported incidents

• Microsoft: Here's how this notorious botnet used hacked routers for stealthy communication

• 'Everyone loses': This new ransomware threatens to wipe Windows PCs if its victims don't pay up

• This sneaky type of phishing is growing fast because hackers are seeing big paydays

• Cybersecurity News: LokiLocker ransomware, Instagram phishing attack and new warnings from CISA

• Escobar mobile malware targets 190 banking and financial apps, steals 2FA codes

• CaddyWiper: More destructive wiper malware strikes Ukraine

• Uncovering Trickbot's use of IoT devices in command-and-control infrastructure

• Hit by ransomware or paid a ransom? Now some companies will have to tell the government

• Ubisoft reveals 'security incident' forcing company-wide password refresh

• Nasty Linux netfilter firewall security hole found

• Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware