The world's biggest arms manufacturers and telecommunications providers in nine cooperation with the United Kingdom in order to strengthen the country's network security, hacker attacks and to address the growing threat of other attacks.
UK network security grounds, criminals and state-sponsored overseas organizations numbers growing threat of attack, one of the top priority in the 2010 defense.
Rolls-Royce (RR.L) BAE Systems (BAES.L),, Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) Company will cooperate with the government to deal with cyber threat information sharing, the Defense Department says , on Friday.
The country's government and industry networks suffer from complex network attack about 70 months, 15% opposed the defense sector, GCHQ said the government spy center, also participated in the program.
The partnership also involves contractors, such as BAE to build their own network services from the government and enterprises are expected growing demand, suffered cuts in the defense budget, when the demand for equipment.
The so-called Defense of digital protection partnership will see the implementation of control and sharing threat intelligence to increase security of the defense supply chain.
"This is a clear demonstration of government and industry to work together - sharing information, experience and expertise," Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Philip Dunne said.
Other companies partner is Finmeccanica (SIFI.MI) SELEX units, EADS (EAD.PA) CASSIDIAN arm, Thales (TCFP.PA), CGI Group (GIBa.TO) and British Telecom Group PLC (BT.L).
 



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