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 04/11/22!

IT Operations

• Developer trends, zero-day risks, 5G speeds, and more: Tech research roundup

• Business teams increase cybersecurity risk due to poor SaaS management

• Consumers have dwindling trust in companies to keep user information safe

• CIOs can and should play a pivotal role in ESG strategy

• Edge computing moves toward full autonomy

• What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster

• Cost management woes continue for cloud adopters: report

• 2 years later: Data strategies expand, yielding fast insights

• CIO involvement in security grows as CEOs target risk reduction

• Rising risks to drive IT spending $4.4 trillion this year

Microsoft

• Microsoft's April 2022 Patch Tuesday tackles two zero-day vulnerabilities

• Microsoft: We've just disrupted this ransomware-spreading botnet

• Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud

• Notorious cybercrime gang's botnet disrupted

VMware

• VMware cross-cloud services now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Cisco

• Secure your endpoints and turbocharge your security operations with Cisco Secure Endpoint

• Cisco SD-WAN software gains broader application access, enhanced analytics

• Intersight Workload Optimizer: How to tame the public cloud

• Announcing Cisco Nexus Dashboard open ecosystem expansion with ServiceNow

AWS

• Snowflake vs Amazon Redshift: Data warehousing software comparison

• AWS Single Sign-On launches configurable synchronization for Microsoft Active Directory

• AWS Fargate now delivers faster scaling of applications

• Under the hood: Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate increase task launch rates

Security

• Supply chain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021

• Clueless hackers spent months inside a network and nobody noticed. But then a ransomware gang turned up

• Spring4Shell flaw is now being used to spread this botnet malware

• Report: Organizations are better prepared to fight ransomware, but gaps remain

• 2 years later: What's next in security for the pandemic-era workforce

• Ransomware: These two gangs are behind half of all attacks

• US warning: Hackers have built tools to attack these key industrial control systems

• Microsoft: These hackers are using a simple trick to hide their Windows malware

• US Treasury links North Korean hacker group Lazarus to $600M Axie Infinity heist

• Terrible cloud security is leaving the door open for hackers. Here's what you're doing wrong

• More than 40% of SMBs surveyed have been hit with a cybersecurity breach

• CISA adds 8 known security vulnerabilities as priorities to patch