Just A Normal Day At The Office For Huawei
Chinese telecom champion Huawei is a leader in next-generation 5G mobile communications networks and this comes at the price of suffering a million cyber-attacks every day, focused on stealing ing aspects of their 5G technology.
Huawei has secured itself from a-lot of cyber-attacks, but still gets a-lot of cyber-attacks into its older IT systems and computers and these have been frequently hacked and the attackers have not currently been identified.
By the end of 2018, Huawei had sold 200 million smartphones and had global revenues of $105.1 billion for 2018, with a net profit of $8.7 billion. Huawei said in a September statement that the US administration of President Donald Trump has launched cyber-attacks to “infiltrate Huawei’s Intranet and internal information systems.” These cyber-attacks have often used phishing, malware and virus by email.
John Suffolk, global cyber security and privacy officer at Huawei who for 7 years used to work for the UK Government, where he was the Britain’s CIO and CISO, leading the delivery of the Government’s strategy for the transformation of public services enabled by technology is quoted as sayig “We stand naked every year before the UK government security people who snigger at what we are doing, and make recommendations in a report......They said this time we needed to improve the software engineering in some of our old products, and put our design thinking into our new ones. And we are spending $2bn on that, and presenting or high level plan to the government in June.”
Huawei operates globally in about 170 nations and regions where it has commercial contracts related to 5G technology.
5G technology will enable transmission of large amounts of data at extremely high speeds, allowing telecommunication devices to connect to almost all products and services, including those related to military affairs, through the wireless network.
The United States has been pushing its allies, such as Japan, to exclude Huawei from government contracts and it has said that its products may be assisting spying and espionage by the Chinese government. However, no evidence has been found to prove that the Chinese government has stolen confidential information by using products of Huawei, which was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in the Chinese military.
Speaking to Japan Times John Suffolk said, “If ever he was asked by the Chinese government to do something that he thought was inappropriate, like handing over data or building backdoors, he would blankly refuse to do that....If he was pressurised to do that, he would close the company down,”
The widespread belief that Chinese firms are using spying methods are unlikely to fade anytime soon, given that the government and enterprises have close links in China, a country that is effectively ruled by the Communist Party alone, foreign affairs experts say.
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