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 03/15/21!

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IT Operations

• How to build security into cloud after a hasty adoption

• Data and analytics to become 'core business function' in 2021: Gartner

• 7 critical IT policies you should have in place

• How 4 cities are modernizing their IT infrastructure through the cloud

• Gartner: Top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021

• Enterprise IT leaders are aggressively moving legacy business systems to the cloud

• A look back on the year that changed IT

• What stay and goes in IT, post pandemic

Microsoft

• Microsoft Defender Antivirus now automatically mitigates Exchange Server vulnerabilities

• Windows 10 21H1 now available for 'commercial pre-release validation'

• Microsoft commits to expanding Azure Availability Zones in 2021 and beyond

• Microsoft Exhange Server: These quarterly updates include fixes for security flaw

VMware

• VMware acquires Mesh7 for cloud-native application security

HPE

• HPE now offers it Ezmeral Data Fabric as a standalone service in latest portfolio update

Cisco

• Improving DNS security while preserving resiliency

• Accurate and reliable Threat Detection for your security program

• MITRE ATT&CK: The magic of application mitigations

AWS

• AWS launches new Graviton2-powered EC2 instances

• AWS: S3 storage now holds over 100 trillion objects

• Using Amazon ECS Exec to access your containers on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2

• AWS rolls out S3 Object Lambda to process data for multiple applications

• Automatically block suspicious traffic with AWS Network Firewall and Amazon GuardDuty

Security

• SolarWinds-linked hacking group SilverFish abuses enterprise victims for sandbox tests

• FBI: Phishing emails are spreading this sophisticated malware

• 5 tips for a successful penetration testing program

• Apple developers targeted by new malware, EggShell backdoor

• Mimecast reveals source code theft in SolarWinds hack

• Largest ransomware demand now stands at $30 million as crooks get bolder

• Ryuk ransomware explained: A targeted, devastatingly effective attack

• Google Cloud: Here are the six 'best' vulnerabilities security researchers found last year

• US taxpayers targeted in NetWire, Remcos Trojan attack wave

• Burnt by SolarWinds attack? US releases tool for post-compromise detection

• Ransomware: How to make sure backups are ready for a real attack  

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