Huawei suggests security center
Source: Xinhua |
October 25, 2012, Thursday
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AFTER finding itself blocked from bidding on national contracts, Chinese telecom Huawei has wrested back the initiative by offering unrestricted access to its software through the creation of a cyber security center in Australia.
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, Huawei Australia Chairman John Lord proposed the creation of a cyber security evaluation center, saying that vendors, operators and governments must find ways to work together on methods to enhance cyber security.
Notably, Lord said no one has all the answers to tackling cyber threats.
"Huawei is proposing the establishment of a national cyber security evaluation center, to test the security credentials of technologies being implemented into critical infrastructure projects," Lord said.
"As information and communications technology plays an increasingly significant function in critical infrastructure projects around the world, all nations will need to take a step in this direction at some point," he added.
Huawei has unfairly been the subject of a highly critical congressional report in the United States, perhaps prompting Lord to table the security center reminiscent of a similar concept in the United Kingdom which independently evaluates foreign-made technology.
"If Australia is to effectively mitigate risk in our communications networks, we must establish universal, transparent frameworks to provide security assurance for all vendors," Lord said in the speech.
"In the interests of national security, we believe all other vendors should be subject to the same high standard of transparency."
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, Huawei Australia Chairman John Lord proposed the creation of a cyber security evaluation center, saying that vendors, operators and governments must find ways to work together on methods to enhance cyber security.
Notably, Lord said no one has all the answers to tackling cyber threats.
"Huawei is proposing the establishment of a national cyber security evaluation center, to test the security credentials of technologies being implemented into critical infrastructure projects," Lord said.
"As information and communications technology plays an increasingly significant function in critical infrastructure projects around the world, all nations will need to take a step in this direction at some point," he added.
Huawei has unfairly been the subject of a highly critical congressional report in the United States, perhaps prompting Lord to table the security center reminiscent of a similar concept in the United Kingdom which independently evaluates foreign-made technology.
"If Australia is to effectively mitigate risk in our communications networks, we must establish universal, transparent frameworks to provide security assurance for all vendors," Lord said in the speech.
"In the interests of national security, we believe all other vendors should be subject to the same high standard of transparency."
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