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 07/12/21!

Patch Tuesday July 2021 Edition...PrintNightmare, Windows RCEs and More Exchange RCEs.

IT Operations

• What is hyperconvergence, or HCI, or dHCI today? Why it's all worth knowing

• CIO leadership takes on an even greater strategic role as digitalization accelerates

• Want to quickly recover from ransomware? Plan ahead

• Pandemic accelerated mainframe modernization: report

• Report: Most essential US businesses are cloud-ready

• Business plans are changing. Here's what that means for IT spending

Microsoft

• Microsoft acquires cybersecurity company RiskIQ

• Windows 365 is the long-awaited Microsoft Cloud PC service

• The latest trends in DevOps: Infrastructure-as-code, automation and the importance of communication

• Windows 11 has advanced hardware security. Here's how to get it in Windows 10 today

• Microsoft rolls out first Windows 10 21H2 test build

• Microsoft July 2021 Patch Tuesday: 117 vulnerabilities, Pwn20wn Exchange Server bug fixed

Cisco

• Cisco completes purchase of security risk-management firm

• How Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure powers application service chaining

• Making the most of network telemetry in an imperfect world

AWS

• AWS brings Amazon HealthLake into GA for managing health data

• Multi-cloud and hybrid threat protection with Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM powered by AWS

• TLS-enabled Kubernetes clusters with ACM Private CA and Amazon EKS

• Understanding data streaming concepts for serverless applications

Security

• Ransomware: How banks and credit unions can secure their data from attacks

• SolarWinds releases security advisory after Microsoft discovers vulnerability

• SonicWall releases urgent notice about 'imminent' ransomware targeting firmware

• Toddler mobile banking malware surges across Europe

• Kaseya: What's known (and unknown) about the ransomware attack

• Windows Print Spooler hit with local privilege escalation vulnerability

• How to prevent ransomware attacks with a zero-trust security model

• Phishing continues to be one of the easiest paths for ransomware

• Ransomware attacks are growing bolder and using new extortion methods

• REvil websites down after governments pressured to take action following Kaseya attack

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