Huawei denies spying, calls for global security standards

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/huawei_denies_spying/

By Neil McAllister in San Francisco
The Register
5th September 2012

Even as execs of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei prepare to testify 
before Congress over concerns that the company's networking equipment 
may pose a security threat to US infrastructure, the company issued a 
public statement claiming that it has never participated in cyber 
espionage or any other illegal act, and that it would never do so.

That claim comes in a new report written by John Suffolk – a former UK 
government CIO who now serves as Huawei's global cyber security officer 
– with the rather tongue-tying title of "Cyber Security Perspectives: 
21st century technology and security – a difficult marriage."

Huawei, like its Chinese competitor ZTE, has been under investigation by 
the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
for nearly a year, after multiple US government and military officials 
raised concerns about both companies' ties to the Chinese government.

In the report, which Suffolk describes as "an open and frank 
perspective" on Huawei's views regarding cyber security and its impacts, 
the company asserts that the negative attention it has received is 
unfair and that espionage would be against its business interests:

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