Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be serving as a key cyber security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, the transition team announced on Thursday, which could pose yet more conflicts of interest for the incoming administration.
The Trump loyalist, who had been on the shortlist for secretary of state, “will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cyber security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector,” the Trump team said, which could include arranging meetings with corporate executives to discuss cyber issues in the private sector.
Despite the appointment—which comes with no title—Giuliani has said he will not resign from his role as chair of the global cyber security practice at Greenberg Traurig, nor from his post of CEO of Giuliani Partners, an international security consulting firm, where he works directly for cyber-related clients.
“The idea here,” Giuliani explained on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning, “is to bring together corporate leaders and their technological people. The president will meet with them on an ongoing basis, as well as anyone else in the administration… I’ll coordinate the whole thing.”
This forum, Giuliani noted, will include foreign firms, including some from Israel, which he said has “tremendous cyberdefense research.”
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