<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">President-elect has announced that he has selected the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani to form a cybersecurity team.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Giuliani has previous experience in the private sector cybersecurity industry and he will be &#8220;be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend&#8221; on these matters, according to Trump&rsquo;s team. ;</p>
<p>There was some speculation that Giuliani, who was an adviser to Trump during his campaign, would be selected as Secretary of State. ;</p>
<p>But, it looks as though he will be assisting in the private sector and will be especially valuable due to his &#8220;long and very successful government career in law enforcement, and his now 16 years of work providing security solutions in the private sector,&#8221; according to Trump&rsquo;s transition office. ;</p>
<p>Trump is making cybersecurity a major priority and has announced plans to have a team in place in his first 90 days in office. ; ;</p>
<p>This announcement comes after Trump publically accepted that Russian hackers were behind the U.S. election cyber breach in November, but he also said it &#8220;could have been others&#8221; responsible.</p>
<p>Trump also called cyber-intrusion a &ldquo;phenomenon&rdquo; and a &ldquo;major threat&rdquo; to national security and that it is &#8220;the fastest growing crime in the United States and much of the world.&#8221; ;</p>
<p>Giuliani, whose official title hasn&rsquo;t been announced, plans to bring together the best experts to combat this threat.  ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Giuliani himself, in a phone call with reporters, compared the issues with cyber security to cancer, saying if all the people doing cancer research were brought together, &#8220;you might be able to cure it.&#8221; Giuliani said there&#8217;s an &#8220;awful lot of research going on both here, in Israel, in Germany on cyber defense.&#8221; His job he said, will be to bring those experts to the President-elect so they can share with him their solutions,&rdquo; writes ;<em>NPR.</em> ;&ldquo;Giuliani said he will focus on bringing &#8220;things the private sector (is) doing&#8221; regarding cyber defenses to the President-elect&#8217;s attention. Of course, corporations have not been immune from hacking either, as customers of Target and Home Depot who had their credit accounts stolen can attest, or employees of the Sony Corporation whose e-mails were hacked.&rdquo;</p>
<p>This is just the first step to getting a handle on our cybersecurity problem. ;</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s note:</strong> ;We are glad to see Trump make this a big priority, since the U.S. government appears to have a huge security problem. Romania, Iran, Russia, and others have been able to infiltrate government systems, even the National Security Agency, has been ;<a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/hackers-stole-powerful-nsa-cyberweapons---now-they-are-for-sale/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&;q=https://punchingbagpost.com/hackers-stole-powerful-nsa-cyberweapons---now-they-are-for-sale/&;source=gmail&;ust=1484433622320000&;usg=AFQjCNHZwYNBoiAXlTDzW_P35CsSoPd5hw" rel="noopener">hacked</a> ;recently. ;</p>
<p>Editor&#8217;s note: I was wondering how Giuliani would fit into the Trump administration. This is a good fit for him. Given the uproar with Hillary&#8217;s emails, the DNC hacks, and the fake news about Russia&#8217;s involvement, the appointment of Giuliani brings sorely needed stature to this area of nationa security.</p>