Is Huawei A Bad Reputation For Cyber Espionage Essay

Despite such a progressive and deep-rooted reputation Huawei is currently facing political scrutiny regarding security concerns, a prevalent factor in the reasons for its limited economical growth in the US. Failure to acquire 3com led to Huawei not landing any major US contracts. This seems to be having a small domino effect in other countries also, examples being UK government offices scrapping all Huawei video intercom devices and even going so far as to review a UK cyber security centre run by Huawei, also, India’s state owned BSNL dropping Huawei from it’s suppliers after being advised by India’s own intelligence bureau, stating that Huawei can not be trusted with it’s sensitive telecom expansion. Similarly, Australian defence and intelligence organizations successfully advised the Australian government to ban Huawei from participating in it’s $38 billion NBN (National Broadband Network). After suspicion arose from the US regarding Huawei’s (and other major Chinese companies) ties to the Chinese government and several cyber-attacks being linked back to China, China has developed a bad reputation for cyber espionage. As such, US officials have stated that the use of Huawei’s hardware within US government buildings could make it very easy to spy on the US government, Michigan politician Mike Rogers even stated that China is known to be a major perpetrator of cyber espionage, and that Chinese companies could not be trusted with access to computer terminals and networks