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Can Rudy Giuliani Make Cybersecurity Great Again?

Foreign Policy: President-elect Donald Trump has a simple diagnosis for the state of cybersecurity. “We’re hacked by everybody,” he declared during a Wednesday press conference. By Thursday, he found his man to solve the problem: former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Trump tapped Giuliani to convene meetings of private sector executives to obtain “experiential and anecdotal” information on which companies are tackling cybersecurity problems. The choice of Giuliani has confounded the cybersecurity industry, in which Giuliani is a fairly minor player.

“When Mr. Giuliani comes to mind, cybersecurity and cyberdefense does not come to top of mind, or even to my thoughts at all,” said a senior executive that heads incident response for a multinational consulting company. Like other industry executives contacted for this story, he insisted on anonymity to candidly discuss the incoming Trump administration.

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