With security and cloud-computing both hot-button topics, Verizon Communications and McAfee are joining forces to offer customers a combination of the two.

Verizon's business unit and McAfee announced Thursday a new joint venture to sell cloud-based security products and services to large businesses and government agencies. With more companies tapping into the "cloud" to lower costs and outsource administration, McAfee and Verizon will sell a new suite of cloud-based security products, expandi...