Verizon‘s enterprise business is expanding its partner program to the public sector by training partners to deliver the company’s services to U.S. government customers, CRN reported Tuesday. Mark Haranas writes that the public sector channel program seeks to meet the needs of government agencies for communications, cloud, Internet of Things, mobility and networking technologies and services. “Training, […] More

Mike Maiorana has led the public sector business for Verizon in his senior vice president role there since September 2013 and oversees the telecommunications giant’s work with agencies at all levels of government in the U.S. He is a former VP of national government sales and operations for Verizon Wireless and oversaw that business’ footprint in its Washington-Baltimore-Virginia region prior to his public […] More

A new Verizon cybersecurity report has highlighted what the company describes as a continuing gap between the time a data breach occurs and when a company detects the cyber attack. Mike Denning, vice president of global security for Verizon enterprise solutions, said Wednesday that the company continues “to see sizable gaps in how organizations defend […] More

Deloitte and Verizon Enterprise Solutions have forged an alliance to combine their offerings in a move to help customers respond to cyber threats. The companies will integrate Verizon’s computer forensics, incident response and investigation services with Deloitte’s cyber risk advisory services under the partnership, Deloitte said Tuesday. “With our combined capabilities, we are preparing enterprises to […] More

Stacy Clark, marketing manager at Verizon, believes the adoption of cloud computing has spurred job opportunities for cloud-savvy information technology professionals. Clark wrote in a blog article published Dec. 19 that the IT role is shifting to the need for cloud skills from the traditional requirements for hardware maintenance and software management. She believes companies need […] More

Patrick Coomans, a security specialist at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has urged enterprises to relook their password strategies and work toward adopting more secure methods of authenticating identities. Coomans, senior identity strategist at Verizon’s identity solutions division, wrote on the company blog Wednesday that the proliferation of common password use, coupled with lightning-fast password-guessing software at […] More

Verizon has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to offer the Hitachi Content Platform adaptive cloud tiering technology via the Verizon Cloud Marketplace and deliver enterprise content management and hybrid cloud functions. Siki Giunta, senior vice president of cloud services at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Monday that the partnership aims to support the business of Verizon Cloud customers by facilitating efficiency in […] More

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report said Verizon intends to leverage the […] More

Siki Giunta, senior vice president for global cloud business at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company aims to be a top provider of cloud computing products and services in the international market, Fortune magazine reported Thursday. “We want to be a global player,” Giunta told the magazine. Katherine Noyes writes Giunta is responsible for helping […] More

Companies should actively monitor their networks, establish a crisis management plan and instill employee awareness to mitigate the impact of cyber attacks on both operations and business, Verizon‘s Rafeeq Rehman says. Recent incidents of data breaches indicate how hackers can target even old data as companies store these information for use in analytics applications, Rehman writes on Verizon’s enterprise cloud […] More

Verizon announced that it has joined forces with FireEye to come up with new cyber defense products designed to be more flexible in addressing a fast-changing threat landscape. The partnership will pull resources from the two companies’ workforces, global networks and customer basse, FireEye CEO Dave DeWalt said Wednesday. Kathie Miley, executive director of global security […] More

A new Verizon study has found that 65 percent of businesses leverage cloud computing products and services to manage their information technology infrastructure. Kevin King, corporate communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Tuesday the “State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014” report indicates chief information officers and chief technology officers oversee about 62 percent […] More