Verizon Joins Lockheed Martin Cybersecurity Alliance

Verizon Tuesday joins defense contractor Lockheed Martin's Cyber Security Alliance, becoming the first telecom company to enter the private partnership that includes tech giants like Microsoft, Symantec and Dell, among others.

Introduced in 2009 along with the NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center, the alliance has the goal of improving cyber security practices across the private sector and collaborating with the U.S. government to face the increasing threat of cyber attacks, which can cause real world problems such as economic losses due to cyber crime and cyber espionage.

"We understand the cyber security threat is real," Sonya Cork, Verizon's vice president of Departmen…
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