UK alerted to potential cyber risks of Huawei equipment

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The latest annual report from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board has identified “shortcomings” in Huawei’s engineering processes.

Despite finding that the capability of HCSEC had improved in 2017 and that technical work relevant to overall mitigation strategy can be performed at scale and with high quality, the report said the Oversight Board can provide “only limited assurance” that all risks to UK national security from Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s critical networks have been sufficiently mitigated. “We are advising the National Security Adviser on this basis,” the report said.

The report comes just three months after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advised the UK telecommunications sector to avoid the use of equipment and services from ZTE in China.

“NCSC assess that the national security risks arising from the use of ZTE equipment or services in the context of the existing UK telecommunications infrastructure cannot be mitigated,” said Ian Levy, technical director at the NCSC.

HCSEC was set in November 2010 under a set of arrangements between Huawei and the UK government to mitigate any perceived…

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