Huawei, the world's leading 5G network developer, opened its Cyber Security Transparency center yesterday in Brussels to neutralize the allegations in the Western market that its technologies are used in spying for the Chinese state.
The company plan to open the transparency center last year. At the opening ceremony for the center on Tuesday, CEO Ken Hu said in his speech that, looking at the events from the past few months, it's clear that this facility is now more critical than ever.
The company said that the center will serve as the company's security solutions in areas that include 5G, loT and cloud. It was built to provide a platform that will enhance communication and "joint innovation" with all stakeholders and to provide a technical validation and evaluation platform for their customers.
In its press release, Huawei will work with industry partners to explore and promote the development of security standards and verification mechanisms, to facilitate technological innovation in cybersecurity across the industry.
The CEO's speech also said that to build a trustworthy environment, we need to work together. He added that both trust and distrust should be based on facts, not feelings, not speculation, and not baseless rumors.
He added that the company believes that acts must be verifiable, and verification must be based on standards. The CEO emphasized the need for everyone to work together on unified standards that are based on a common set of standards, technical verification, and legal verification can lay the foundation for building trust.
Gou Ping, the companies rotating chairman, pleaded for the same sentiments during the Mobile World Congress last week. Gou stressed the point in his speech that its network kit is secure and they will never contain backdoors. The Chairman also stressed the importance that the telco industry needs to work together in creating standards and structures to enable trust.
Gao urged that government and the mobile operators should work together to agree what this assurance testing and certification rating for Europe will be and to let experts decide whether networks are safe or not. The chairman also said on his speech that the United States accusations against the company's 5G have no evidence.
The European Commission's digital commissioner Maria Gabriel assured that the executive is prepared to interfere and regulate that the network security issues are handled using a common approach to avoid the risk the members of the European Union take individual actions that might delay the rollout of the 5G across Europe.
