GCHQ believes that Huawei does not sufficiently address security problems in the VK networks

The cyber division of the British intelligence service sees insufficient efforts by Huawei to adequately tackle security problems in telecom networks in the UK. A serious vulnerability was found in 2019, which was remedied before it could be exploited. Huawei has shown some improvement in its security policy, but not enough and there is no confidence that this is structural. That is the outcome of the findings of the National Cyber ​​Security Center of the GCHQ, the British intelligence service. The UK regulator has released a report on the results, the BBC writes, concluding that there is ‘only limited assurance that all risks to UK national security can be contained in the long term’. At the beginning of last year, the British government also concluded that Huawei was making little progress in tackling security concerns. The NCSC does not think that the vulnerabilities found are related to interference by the Chinese state. One of the vulnerabilities found last year appears to have been of ‘national importance’. Extraordinary measures had to be taken to remedy the problem, but this would have been successful before abuse could occur, it is expected. The GCHQ also found significantly more vulnerabilities in 2019 than in 2018, but this is said to be mainly because the vetting was more efficient. Huawei responds to the BBC, saying that the report shows that it is open and transparent. Huawei’s software capabilities are still limited, the company admits, but are getting better, as the UK government wants to ban Huawei from its 5g networks by 2027 due to security concerns. This does not mean that there is no longer any role for Huawei as a supplier of network devices in the country: Huawei equipment may continue to be used with older telephone networks and fixed internet.