AW: We've seen an alarming increase in business-targeted attacks in the last year: ransomware, Distributed Denial of Service DDoS, and supply-chain attacks. People are naturally concerned about the security of government infrastructure. In broad strokes, what is Verizon Business Group's role in protecting US Government Agencies?A Joe: Verizon has existing contracts for various elements of US Government critical infrastructure, but we also have our own network that is considered a crucial national asset. We have to protect that network, and we continue to identify and monitor the threats you mentioned. We've seen these threats across virtually all industry sectors: Federal, state, and local government agencies; small- and medium-sized businesses; and large enterprise customers. It's a growing trend, because it's very profitable for the bad guys. So we've had to upgrade our security controls and protection mechanisms against those for ourselves.
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