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 03/16/20!

Resources to Stay Agile & Fully Operational in a Remote Work Culture

Coronavirus

• Cloud and SaaS providers prepare for increased demand as millions telecommute due to COVID-19 fears

• COVID-19 brings new security challenges and new allies, says HackerOne CEO

• Libya-based hacker using coronavirus pandemic to spread mobile surveillance malware

• Healthcare devices at higher cybersecurity risk now due to coronavirus

• COVID-19 demonstrates the need for disaster recovery and business continuity plans 

• Cybercriminals exploiting coronavirus outbreak with virus-themed sales on the dark web

• How to use remote collaboration now and after the coronavirus pandemic

• With a few glitches, cloud computing should cope with COVID-19

IT Operations

• Top 5 trends in automation

• 85% of organizations are using AI in deployed applications

• Trucking carrier Schneider National accelerates to digital transformation 2.0

• Complications of guaranteeing uptime during a pandemic

• KinderCare adopts SD-WAN to support company growth and gains cost-saving insights

• Understand IoT data storage options for data deluge 

Microsoft

• Windows 10 2004: Here are the new features you need to know about

• Microsoft Teams adds visual cue feature to cut back on video interruptions

• Microsoft's Windows Terminal now has mouse support for Windows Subsystem for Linux

• Microsoft Teams usage up by 12 million in the past week, hitting 44 million daily active users, due largely in COVID-19

• Microsoft postpones end of support for some Windows 10 1709 versions

• Windows 10 new design: Microsoft shows off new Start Menu and app icons

• How Microsoft dismantled the infamous Necurs botnet  

HPE

• HPE rolls out turnkey 5G-as-a-service

Cisco

• Cisco warns of five SD-WAN security weaknesses

• Cisco tackles root privilege vulnerability in SD-WAN software  

VMware

• VMware patches privilege escalation vulnerability in Fusion, Horizon

• vSphere 7 - vMotion Enhancements

AWS

• Quickly set up remote contact center agents with Amazon Connect

• Working from Home? Here's how AWS can help

Security

• How to protect your organization from security threats amidst the rise in telecommuters

• How to better defend your organization against remote access threats

• IT security report finds 97% have suspicious network activity

• Bring sanity and security to infection outbreaks with a malware response plan

• HHS suffers cyberattack as US deals with coronavirus response

• As the networks evolve enterprises need to rethink network security 

• This new variant of Mirai botnet malware is targeting network-attached storage devices

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