Rudy Giuliani to Advise Trump on Cyber Security

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will serve as a cyber-security counselor to President-elect Donald Trump once he takes office, the Trump transition team announced Th.

SecurityWatch Giuliani, who currently runs his own security consulting firm, will serve equally a liaison betwixt the Trump assistants and private companies who are working to gainsay against cyber-security threats. Trump's annunciation didn't specify a title for Giuliani, proverb only that the former mayor will be "sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend apropos individual sector cyber security bug."

The announcement did, however, hint at some of the threats Trump wants to address, including "hacking, intrusions, disruptions, manipulations, theft of data and identities, and securing information technology infrastructure."

Trump takes function as both individual citizens and U.s.a. companies have fallen victim to threats that were virtually unknown just a few years ago. Throughout 2022, multiple high-profile ransomware attacks targeted hospitals and other institutions, which often paid ransoms of tens of thousands of dollars each instead of pursuing even more costly data recovery methods.

The explosive growth in devices that make up the Cyberspace of Things (IoT) has also contributed to threats, including a distributed denial of service attack using infected baby cameras and other IoT devices last fall that took large portions of the Us Cyberspace infrastructure offline.

Even as large corporations hire consulting firms like Giuliani's to fight back, experts have warned that lax security practices—especially among IoT device manufacturers—make them also easy to hack.

Giuliani's ability to impact modify in his new position is unclear, especially given Trump'south full general skepticism about the Internet and computers. Giuliani tends to take the opposite view. He sees cyber attacks as a key roadblock to technological advances that tin can take a positive societal impact, especially when it comes to healthcare.

"Our lack of securing these things is belongings back a tremendously important advance that would be a great way to reduce healthcare costs," he told PCMag in 2022. "In that location is a tremendous societal cost and it comes near because we oasis't developed security for the Cyberspace—the deject—the way nosotros should."