Security News > 2020 > January > Huawei and Supply Chain Security - The Great Geopolitical Debate
There is no evidence of backdoors in the Huawei equipment; the incident has not damaged relations between the African Union and China; and Huawei has stated, "These data leaks did not originate in technology supplied by Huawei to the AU. What Huawei supplied for the AU project included data center facilities, but those facilities did not have any storage or data transfer functions."
Tony Scott concludes in his supply chain whitepaper, provided exclusively to SecurityWeek ahead of public release, a conclusion that is endorsed by Huawei's Purdy, that there is one essential element missing from all current supply chain solutions: independent product testing.
Here, Scott's paper concludes that the necessary addition to supply chain security is independent product testing - similar in some ways to the UK's Huawei Cell - but applicable to all products from all manufacturers.
"Independent testing is part of the supply chain answer to concerns over Huawei supply - a significant part," he told SecurityWeek.
The Cell - technically the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre Oversight Board - is a facility in Banbury, UK with unique access to Huawei equipment and code.