The Swisscom maintains your supplier Huawei, sitting in the United States on trial for espionage. One has to consider currently, no exchange, said Swisscom CEO Urs Schaeppi.
“today We have no indication that espionage is operated in the networks,” said Schaeppi on the sidelines of a media conference in Zurich in an interview with the news Agency Reuters: “We’re not completely blind, if we operate the networks. We monitors you constantly and look at what is happening on the networks.”
The U.S. Department of justice has initiated a lawsuit against the Chinese Smartphone and technology giant and its financial Director Meng Wanzhou. The Ministry of justice accuses Huawei, Meng and two subsidiary companies in 13 charges against the Iran sanctions violated.
Two Huawei subsidiaries is also put in a further ten charges of industrial espionage. The Chinese government criticized the indictment is sharp and spoke of “political manipulations”.
exclusion in several countries
in Addition to throw the United States and other countries before Huawei a to be very close to the Chinese authorities, and see the group as a threat to your cyber security. The USA, Australia and new Zealand have excluded Huawei as a supplier for the construction of 5G networks and urge other States to follow their example.
In the United Kingdom, and Norway, there is already a change in thinking, or it is still being tested. Also in Germany, it is discussed about the use of Huawei products, the Development of the 5G mobile network. The world’s second-largest mobile operator, Vodafone, announced that the use of Huawei products in its core networks to suspend.
Huawei and the Beijing government rejected the allegations decided.
is Not only a supplier
Swisscom has also been working very closely with the matter, said Schaeppi. The discussion today led a lot of to closely. Today’s Telecom networks have a wide range of suppliers. “With a single supplier you can build today, no network.”
Therefore, it is important that you can build architectures, and security concepts, as well as monitoring measures to ensure that the networks are safe. The greater risk of a cyber attack, which was independent of suppliers. “It’s like water. Cyber attackers follow the path of least resistance and to penetrate there, where there’s a gap,” said Schaeppi.
“With the Trojans, you can penetrate in any infrastructure, whether provided by Cisco or Huawei. Therefore it is necessary to look at the whole concept of security of the infrastructures,” said Schaeppi. Huawei shall not indicted in the US for cyber espionage, but also for industrial espionage.
spying can operate today in every electronic component. The attacker would have to penetrate into the systems. “You don’t have to have the Hardware myself,” said Schaeppi.
Huawei provides for the Swisscom components for the fixed network. Competitor Sunrise continues to Huawei for the construction of the 5G mobile network. Salt has chosen for the current supplier Nokia. (ij/sda)
Created: 31.01.2019, 13:42 Uhr
