The report comes as London weighs whether to heed U.S. calls to bar the Chinese firm from the coming 5G networks.
By Ellen Nakashima Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email Bio Follow March 28 at 5:30 AM The British government on Thursday released a scathing assessment of the security risks posed by the Chinese telecom company Huawei to Britain’s telecom networks, as London weighs whether to heed U.S. calls to bar the firm from the next-generation 5G network over fears it will enable spying by the Chinese government and potential cyberattacks.
The United States has mounted a full-court press to urge partners worldwide to refrain from including Huawei in their 5G networks in coming years.
Still, its findings are likely to influence the 5G strategy that the British government announces this spring. The new 5G network is designed to be up to 100 times faster than the current 4G system, fueling autonomous cars, smart cities, more effective and potentially lethal military operations, but also opening up new concerns about network cybersecurity and espionage.
Britain is still deciding what its 5G strategy will be. The GCHQ report will inform deliberations. The agency has presented options ranging from a full ban on companies such as Huawei to various mitigation techniques. A decision by other ministries and the prime minister is expected later this spring.
The Huawei security center opened in 2010, and the oversight board was created in 2014 to address concerns that the center, with its Huawei personnel, was vulnerable to Chinese influence. The center is run by the head of the GCHQ’s National Cybersecurity Center, who also chairs the oversight board. A source-code review, he said, “is only worthwhile if the source code scrutinized is actually the same code installed on devices. This is a serious issue.”
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