Huawei inaugurates a Grand Global center dedicated to Cybersecurity

Leading telecoms equipment manufactuer Huawei inaugurated on June 9, 2021, its largest global transparency center for Cyber Security and Privacy Protection in Dongguan, China.

Representatives of several standardization bodies such as British Standards Institution, associations like the GSMA, and regulators, companies and telecom operators took part in this historic inauguration. With the establishment of this platform, Huawei, as an international corporate citizen, demonstrates its commitment to the implementation of an international framework for digital trust. This company also aims to develop a new vision of what should be the responsibility of a leading equipment manufacturer in the world.

In its initial phase, the center employs 200 people and Huawei commits to allocate a budget of 1.5 million dollars per year. This equipment supplier already claims, at the international level, a very particular attention to cybersecurity, with more than 3,000 researchers and 5% of Research and Development expenditure. To this end, it has six centers in this field outside China, including one in Europe which opened in March 2019 in Brussels.

In inaugurating this large global cybersecurity center in China, Huawei Chairman Mr. Ken Hu clarified that “cybersecurity is more important than ever and, as an industry, we must work together, share best practices and strengthen our collective capabilities in governance, standards, technology and auditing ”. He adds, “We need to give the general public and regulators a reason to be confident in the safety of the products and services they use every day. Together, we can find the right balance between security and development in an increasingly digital world ”.

Indeed, the only solution is to develop the skills necessary, through this Huawei platform in particular, to deal with this cybersecurity phenomenon. All the actors concerned must work within the framework of collective intelligence by sharing the best experiences in this area. The reason behind is to give confidence to the various users in the safety and security of internet products and services that they use on a daily basis.

In fact, this new large center constitutes a platform for sharing best practices, in a reliable and efficent manner, for actors in the telecoms and digital sector. During the inauguration, Huawei also released the document “Basic Principles of Cyber Security of Huawei Products”.

The equipment manufacturer has decided that this center will be open to all stakeholders at the global level, so as to strengthen cybersecurity on a transparent scientific and technological basis, because it probably remains a matter for everyone, plus a continuous improvement of network security requires close collaboration between governments, standards bodies and technology providers. This need for cybersecurity has become a necessity more than ever in order to develop and take advantage of new technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence, in a climate of serenity and confidence. The cybersecurity system can only be international with commonly shared objectives.

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