Online Security, a global provider of computer forensics and information technology risk mitigation since 1997   Original Source:    http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/17/news/companies/giuliani_ey.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes Rudy Giuliani, the anti-hacker Former NYC mayor's consulting company teams up with Ernst & Young to protect against hacker threat. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm and accounting firm Ernst & Young joined forces Thursday to help companies guard against computer hackers. The firms unveiled what they called the Advance Security Centers in Ernst & Young's offices in New York's Times Square and in Houston, where staff members with military and corporate security backgrounds will toil away on computers to protect clients. Giuliani, who opened Giuliani Partners after leaving office last year, positioned the computer protection services as a significant corporate governance initiative. "The days of neglecting digital risk are over and the realization has set in that digital risk has a direct effect on an organization's profitability as well as business objectives, stakeholder confidence and brand," he said in a statement. Giuliani developed a reputation as something of a security guru by overseeing a sharp reduction in crime during his tenure as mayor and his demeanor and leadership in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that brought down New York's World Trade Center.