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 09/06/21!

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IT Operations

• Tailoring SD-WAN to fit your needs

• An effective cloud strategy is a frame of mind, not a one-time transition

• 91% of IT teams have felt 'forced' to trade security for business operations

• 12 database security landmines, failures, and mistakes that doom your data

• The driving forces behind DevOps today and how to integrate it into your business

Microsoft

• Windows 10 PowerToys: A cheat sheet

• As Windows 11 launch nears, Microsoft is squashing bugs fast

• Microsoft: We've fixed Azure container flaw that could have leaked data

• How to deploy the Windows 11 commercial preview now

Cisco

• Cisco expands its cloud calling portfolio

• Simplified insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall with AWS Route Table Enhancement

• Choosing the right virtual desktop infrastructure for your hybrid employee workspaces

Dell

• Dell releases study finding organizations manage 10 times more data than they did five years ago

• Dell rolls out a set of new data security tools to address latency and scale issues

AWS

• Top 10 security best practices for securing data in Amazon S3

• AWS, NetApp team up for a cloud-native file system

• Monitor and visualize building occupancy with AWS IoT Core, Amazon QuickSight

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service and supports OpenSearch 1.0

• AWS makes EKS Anywhere generally available

• Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application costs

Security

• Virginia National Guard confirms cyberattack hit Virginia Defense Force email accounts

• How to not get hacked: 3 dangerous security mistakes to avoid

• Why your IoT devices may be vulnerable to malware

• MyRepublic customer data compromised in third-party security breach

• Phishing attacks: One in three suspect emails reported by employees really are malicious

• Attacker releases credentials for 87,000 FortiGate SSL VPN devices

• Ransomware: Take these three steps to protect yourself from attacks and make it easier to recover

• Microsoft, CISA urge use of mitigations and workarounds for Office document vulnerability

• Malicious office documents: The latest trend in cybercriminals exploitation

• What is MITRE's Att&CK framework? What red teams need to know

• REvil ransomware group resurfaces after brief hiatus