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 09/20/21!

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IT Operations

• Boards rethink incident response playbook as ransomware surges

• Data center downtime decreases, but consequences get more severe

• Enterprise app sprawl swells, with most apps outside of IT control

• Cloud, security top midmarket IT spending

• The real value of continuous security scanning for cloud-based workloads

• IT projects trapped in backlog as demand rises

• Google unveils results of DevOps report, finding increase in public cloud use

• 14 things you need to know about data storage management

Microsoft

• How to see who is trying to break into your Office 365 and what they're trying to hack

• New Microsoft analytics tools help identify and understand trends without compromising privacy

• This key Windows 11 preview sees Microsoft fixing bugs in some important features

• What Microsoft is doing to ease the tensions of remote work

Nutanix

• Nutanix offers virtual private cloud HCI, multicloud workload management

Cisco

• Cisco forecasts a bright future for network, app, hybrid work technologies

• Mitigating dynamic application risks with Secure Firewall Application Detectors

Dell

• Dell Technologies expands Dell EMC CloudIQ, eyes autonomous infrastructure

AWS

• Getting started with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery projects

• Amazon QuickSight Q - Business intelligence using natural language questions

• Amazon EKS Anywhere - Now generally available to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on premises

Security

• New advanced hacking group targets governments, engineers worldwide

• CISA releases advisory on Conti ransomware, notes increase in attacks after more than 400 incidents

• When the email scam originates inside your walls

• This ransomware-dropping malware has swapped phishing for a sneaky new attack route

• Education cybersecurity: K-12 schools get a mixed report card

• VoIP company battles massive ransom DDoS attack

• Four months on from a sophisticated cyberattack, Alaska's health department is still recovering

• DDoS attacks are becoming more prolific and more powerful, warn cybersecurity researchers

• This phishing-as-a-service operation is responsible for many attacks against businesses, says Microsoft

• RCE is back: VMware details file upload vulnerability in vCenter Server

• Ransomware now accounts for 69% of all attacks that use malware

• Multi-party breaches cause 26-times the financial damage of the worst single-party breach: Report