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 09/27/21!

GreenPages' Virtual Cloudscape 2021: Digitally Enabled. Cyber Secured. 

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IT Operations

• Toward a new hybrid cloud - the one CIOs always wanted

• How CISO roles will change as customer trust becomes imperative

• Google, AWS, IBM, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley partner for a new cloud data framework

• Inside Wells Fargo's multicloud strategy

• Companies gear up for 2022 IT budget hikes: report

• Enterprises plan major investments as remote work escalates security risk: report

Microsoft

• Microsoft warning: This malware creates a 'persistent' backdoor for hackers

• Azure Purview data governance service heads to GA

• Windows 11: Microsoft is fixing more key bugs ahead of October 5 release

• 4 lessons from recent Microsoft Azure cloud vulnerabilities 

• How to create a backup recovery service with Microsoft Azure

• Windows Server 2022: A cheat sheet

HPE

• HPE expands GreenLake services into new markets

• Database management running on overload? Learn how HPE and Nutanix ease the burden

Cisco

• Simply Explained: Ransomware, phishing, zero trust

• Control across your hybrid environments using Cisco Secure Workload 3.6

Dell

• Dell announces new ProSupport Suite and AI-powered Trusted Device capabilities 

AWS

• AWS makes Arm-powered Lambda functions generally available

• Now - AWS Step Functions supports 200 AWS services to enable easier workflow automation

• Enable Security Hub PCI DSS standard across your organization and disable specific controls

• Migrating custom Landing Zone with RAM to AWS Control Tower

• Amazon announces new tools for its cloud-hosted call center software

• QuickSight Q, Amazon's simple BI tool, moves into GA

Security

• This dangerous mobile Trojan has stolen fortune from over 10 million victims

• Ransomware attacks against hospitals are having some very grim consequences

• Exploit released for VMware vulnerability after CISA warning

• Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms

• United Health Centers reportedly compromised by ransomware attack

• Fortinet, Shopify and more report issues after root CA certificate from Lets Encrypt expires

• Why organizations are slow to patch even high-profile vulnerabilities

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

• More than 130,000 malicious IP addresses were blocked during Census 2021: AWS 

• 3 tips to protect your users against credential phishing attacks