Maureen Kaplan, former managing director and chief operating officer of Verizon Enterprise Solutions‘ (NYSE: VZ) global security services group, has been named executive vice president of business development at Veris Group. Kaplan will be responsible for the Vienna, Virginia-based cybersecurity firm’s business development activities and lead its efforts to develop sales, marketing and capture teams, Veris Group …

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is considering a sale of its enterprise-grade technology portfolio in order to concentrate on its consumer market business line, Reuters reported Friday. Liana Baker and Greg Roumeliotis write Citigroup will help examine a potential sale of business landline and Internet services from Verizon’s unit formerly called MCI as well as data center offerings from …

DigiCert has acquired Verizon Enterprise’s (NYSE:VZ) CyberTrust Enterprise SSL business for an undisclosed amount. The company will take over Verizon’s trusted roots and intermediate certificates while Verizon will remain as DigiCert’s reseller of SSL certificates, DigiCert said Tuesday. Mike Denning, vice president of global security at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said …

TYSONS CORNER, VA June 1, 2015 — ExecutiveBiz reported Friday on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) adding an on-demand pay-as-you-go option to its public sector infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The new option to Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition, granted a FedRAMP authority to operate in November 2014, works to provide support for variable workloads and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA April 1, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday on Deloitte and Verizon’s plan to offer new cyber tools for the enterprise under a new strategic partnership agreement jointly announced by the two companies. The cyber incident response offerings under the alliance will  be designed to address …

The Department of Homeland Security intends to award a contract to a Verizon (NYSE: VZ) subsidiary to support a technology designed to help prospective workers in the U.S. check their employment eligibility. DHS has selected MCI Communication Services to provide hosted identity and account management services for the federal E-Verify …

Mike Denning, formerly senior vice president and general manager of CA Technologies’ (NASDAQ: CA) security business unit, has joined Verizon Enterprise (NYSE: VZ) as vice president of global security. He will be responsible for the company’s global security operations centers, cyber intelligence center, product management and development organization and security sales …

Maggie Hallbach, a 17-year Verizon Enterprise Solutions (NYSE: VZ) veteran, has been promoted to a vice president position in the telecommunications company’s public sector business and will work with state, local government and education institutions. Kevin Irland, manager of corporate communications at Verizon, said Monday that Hallbach recently led the Lean Six Sigma program to foster …

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has moved to grow its presence in the intelligence community by agreeing to acquire Verizon‘s (NYSE: VZ) Federal Network Systems subsidiary for an undisclosed sum. Jacobs expects to close the deal for the 750-employee subsidiary in the summer of calendar year 2014, Jacobs said Tuesday. Robert Norfleet, a …

Chris Formant, a former group president and senior vice president at Avaya, has joined Verizon Enterprise Solutions (NYSE: VZ) as president and will have responsibility for the telecommunications company’s enterprise technology portfolio. He will lead a team that works to deliver Verizon’s cloud computing, workforce mobility, intelligent networking, security and …