Installing Chinese 5G Gear is Dangerous—and Probably Inevitable: NATO Center Report
By Patrick Tucker,
April 3, 2019 12:00 PM ET
Alliance members should look to mimic Britain, which created an entire government office to scrutinize Huawei’s products for security problems.
Cheap Chinese 5G technology isn’t all that cheap when you factor in the government time and resources needed to make it safe—or at least safer—to use, a new NATO Center of Excellence report says.
That’s the warning from a new report by the NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, or CCDCOE, which notes the considerable risks of importing next-generation telecom equipment from Chinese hardware and software maker Huawei. Acknowledging that alliance governments are unlikely to issue the “blanket bans†sought by U.S. officials, the report
recommends instead a lot more government supervision of what companies like Huawei are building.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/04/installing-chinese-5g-gear-dangerousand-probably-inevitable-nato-center-report/156029/
