Giuliani to Head Trump Administration Cybersecurity Committee

U.S. cybersecurity offense "is way ahead of our defense," Rudy Giuliani said Thursday in a conference call after the incoming Donald Trump administration announced that it would consult with the former New York City mayor on cybersecurity issues and that Giuliani would chair a committee on cybersecurity developments involving company heads. That committee also will hold a number of meetings with President-elect Donald Trump about cybersecurity, said a Trump transition team release. "It's kind of like cancer in the sense there are so many different things being done to cure cancer, you almost feel like if you could put all the people together in the same room, maybe we could cure it," Giuliani said, saying "a perfect defense" to cybersecurity threats is unlikely and improvement is the aim. The Trump transition team said the meetings are to get "experiential and anecdotal information" from the executives about cybersecurity issues and how they were handled. The Trump team also said it's not seeking consensus advice or recommendations. Giuliani is Greenberg Traurig chairman-global cybersecurity, and chairman-CEO of security consulting firm Giuliani Partners.