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 05/24/21!

VMware vCenter Vulnerability with Critical RCE, CVSSv3 Score 9.8 of 

IT Operations

• How cloud strategies will evolve after the pandemic

• SD-WAN may be the future of the hybrid workplace, study suggests

• Securing data in a hybrid work world

• Forrester predicts 70% of US and EU companies planning full shift to hybrid work

• Google Cloud intros trio of new services aimed at helping enterprises unify data

• Edge computing is coming, and businesses aren't ready

Microsoft

• Microsoft: Here comes the biggest change to Outlook for Windows since 1997

• Build 2021: Microsoft reveals enhancements to Power BI, Cosmos DB

• These new Microsoft tools make it much easier to manage Windows 10 PCs 

• Microsoft enables more Azure services to run anywhere via Azure Arc

Cisco

• Cyber Hygiene: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of incident response

• Secure workload and secure firewall – unified segmentation

• Going on-premise with SecureX orchestration remote

• Application Aware Networking with Cisco SD-WAN

AWS

• Amazon Redshift ML is now generally available - Use SQL to create Machine Learning Models and make predictions from your data

• AWS announces GA of ECS Anywhere for on-premise container management

• Mistakes to avoid when implementing serverless architecture with AWS Lambda

• Visualize your AWS infrastructure with Amazon Neptune and AWS Config

Security

• Patch immediately: VMware warns of critical remote code execution hole in vCenter

• Any company can be victim of a ransomware attack

• Ransomware seen as top cyberthreat as extortion demands, payouts soar

• Ransomware: Dramatic increase in attacks is causing harm on a significant scale

• The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack is (another) call for zero trust and resilience in industrial companies

• This massive phishing campaign delivers password-stealing malware disguised as ransomware

• Researchers find four new malware tools created to exploit Pulse Secure VPN appliances

• Triple-extortion is a new tool for ransomware attackers

• Debunking infosec purity and other security myths in the wake of recent attacks

• Scripps Health still grappling with impact of May 1 ransomware attack

• FBI warns of Conti ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations

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