14 DAY TRIAL // Back in 2012, when US officials started raising questions about the national security risks associated with the presence of Chinese communications equipment – particularly from Huawei and ZTE – in critical networks, the UK didn’t seem to be too concerned.
However, in the meantime, things have changed. Reuters reports that the British government wants to review the operations of Huawei’s cyber security center.
The center was established in 2010 to test Huawei products for security risks in an effort to make sure that no equipment was connected to the country’s critical infrastructure before being properly vetted.
The decision to review the security center comes shortly after Parliament published a report last month in which it expressed concerns about the way the Chinese giant entered the UK's critical infrastructure.
The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has also highlighted that Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Center is run entirely by Huawei.
“We questioned whether the staff, who are paid and employed by Huawei, are sufficiently independent of Huawei to provide the necessary level of assurance about the company’s activity,” the report noted.