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 11/08/21!

IT Operations

• 90% of companies use cloud, but core app modernization lags

• In-person and hybrid meeting strategies in the COVID era

• Poll finds managers aren't worried about keeping their IT workers happy. That's bad for everyone

• Power to the people: Empowering those outside IT with tech tools

• Better security, access policies can combat cloud misconfigurations

• Cloud market potential unbound as 'cloud-first' becomes ubiquitous

• How IT can navigate the hybrid work landscape

Microsoft

• Exchange Server bug: Patch now, but multi-factor authentication might not stop these attacks, warns Microsoft

• Microsoft November 2021 Patch Tuesday: 55 bugs squashed, two under active exploit

• Microsoft Teams just got a handy new feature in Windows 11

VMware

• Digital transformation isn't just about technology–it's about skills, too

Cisco

• How IT organizations are thinking about Network as a Service

• Improving application experience with Deep Network Visibility

AWS

• Google and AWS harness the power of machine learning to predict floods and fires

• Strategies for building a strong security foundation in AWS

• Measure and improve your application resilience with AWS Resilience Hub

• Understanding how AWS Lambda scales with Amazon SQS standard queues

• Building resilient Well-Architected workloads using AWS Resilience Hub

Security

• These industries were the most affected by the past year of ransomware attacks

• How cybercriminals use bait attacks to gather info about their intended victims

• Healthcare security: IT pros warn of vulnerable HVAC systems, imaging machines, check-in kiosks and more

• Palo Alto Networks patches zero-day affecting firewalls using GlobalProtect Portal VPN

• Missouri apologizes to 600k teachers who had SSNs and private info exposed in data breach

• Ransomware gangs are using these 'ruthless' tactics as they aim for bigger payouts

• Google warns of hackers using macOS zero-day flaw to capture keystrokes, screengrabs

• Cybersecurity: This prolific hacker-for-hire operation has targeted thousands of victims around the world

• Average ransomware payment for US victims more than $6 million, survey says

• This sneaky trick lets attackers smuggle malware onto your network