Security News > 2021 > August > US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO

Y Purdy, CSO for Huawei USA, believes the US needs to be more active in the development of global security standards rather than being aloof.

"The US has fundamentally dropped the ball when it comes to participation in global security standards," Purdy told The Register.

So it's perhaps not surprising that Purdy, as an executive with the company's US subsidiary, believes the US made the wrong move by erecting trade barriers and shunning Huawei.

He went so far as to describe an encounter at a security conference last year where he asked a top US intelligence official about the possibility of agency personnel visiting Huawei facilities to evaluate security practices.

Citing a view espoused by Ira Winkler, CISO at Skyline Technology Solutions, that you have two choices - develop a security protocol that eliminates the advantage nation states have for intelligence gathering or accept that you're not really going to have security - Purdy said he disagreed.

"We need to move from the old UN cyber-norms of conduct to incorporate some of the things China has recommended in the China Global Initiative on Data Security from 2020," he said.

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