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In July's news - the Information Commissioner’s Office cracked down on GDPR breaches, giving Marriott a fine of nearly £100 million. Also, critical Windows and SQL Server updates.

Dedicated Support customers can now create service request and incident tickets using the Coeo Portal.

This month, both Google and Arm have continued to scrutinise Huawei amid security concerns, and reports from MalwareBytes have shown that the WannaCry virus still presents a very real threat. Also, Critical Windows and SQL Server updates, and CTP 3.0 for SQL Server 2019 were released.

The Database Administrator (DBA) is often the organisation’s main source of technical database operational knowledge and they are difficult to obtain and retain.

Security concerns have risen this month around the government’s controversial plan to allow Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which is accused of being a gateway for China to spy on Western nations, build the UK's 5G network. Former defence secretary Gavin Williamson, who was sacked for disclosing..

Our Dedicated Support customers can now benefit from new performance insights in the Coeo Portal. This area provides high-level performance information on servers, instances and databases. 

There have been a number of notable security vulnerabilities uncovered last month including some for Chrome and Magento, while Huawei remains in the limelight:

Whether deliberately or through carelessness, fleshware continues to be a weak link for data security. That’s no excuse for not patching the software though.

As January draws to a close, Microsoft lets in the new year with a CU for 2016 SP1 & SP2 and a hotfix for 2017 CU13 (as below). There are also Windows updates and a variety of stories in the news to take a look at.

As the year 2018 came to a close, we saw a few updates in regards to SQL Server, where Microsoft released Cumulative Updates for both SQL Server 2014 and 2017. Alongside this, there were also a number of Windows Updates released, which can be found below: