Security News > 2021 > June > Huawei flings open the doors of its third privacy and security transparency centre

Huawei has opened another cyber security centre and, despite facing a crisis of trust in the West, has chosen to do so for the first time in its Chinese heartland.

Perhaps timely, Huawei's security baseline includes incident response procedures, with security patching a feature of a product's long-term maintenance.

More technical topics also feature, with Huawei's Product Cyber Security Baseline describing integrity protection, good application security hygiene and secure coding practices as essentials, among others.

"This is the first time we've shared our security baseline framework with the entire industry, not just core suppliers," said Sean Yang, director of Huawei's Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Office.

In 2010, following an agreement with the UK government, Huawei opened the doors to the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, located in the leafy market town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

HCSEC allowed experts from UK spy agency GCHQ and later its tech wing, the National Cyber Security Centre, to scrutinise Huawei's telecoms kit in order to identify any potential security issues, be they deliberate or accidental.

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