Gov Report Warns UK Telecoms May Face Security Risk from Huawei
The fourth annual report from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board has identified “shortcomings” in Huawei’s engineering processes, which they say have “exposed new risks in the UK telecommunication networks.” A number of operators, such as Openreach (BT), make use of kit from the Chinese firm.
The HCSEC has been running for seven years. It opened in November 2010 under a set of arrangements between Huawei and the Government to mitigate any perceived risks arising from the involvement of Huawei in parts of the UK’s critical national infrastructure. HCSEC provides security evaluation for a range of products used in the UK market.
Sadly the latest report is likely to cause concern among those who are deploying hardware or related systems from the company and warns of “long-term challenges in mitigation and management.” As usual the public version of this report is somewhat light on detail.
