Cisco's Erica Cooper joined Technado to talk about how she became a Senior Technical Lead. She also shared her worst IT nightmare where they had to break the glass on an Azure Stack deployment. In other news, Microsoft releases DirectStorage, Apple announces the Mac Studio workstation, there's a UPC zero-day affecting APC systems, and Dell opts out of Microsoft's Pluton security for Windows. Finally, in a weird one, a man was caught smuggling 160 Intel CPUs into China after taping them to his body.