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■ Trustworthiness

To increase the trustworthiness of our products

and services, we have:

● Ramped up efforts to protect the digital

sovereignty and privacy of customers, and lay a

solid foundation for building trust in the digital

society.

● Joined hands with industry players and

academics from around the world to actively

drive the development of trustworthiness

theories, standards, and specifications.

● Become a major player and contributor of

trustworthiness-related work groups in the

ISO, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP),

and European Telecommunications Standards

Institute (ETSI).

● Actively sought certification for our

trustworthiness from industry organizations,

like gaining the CC EAL5+ certification for

the HongMeng Kernel, making it the first

commercial microkernel in the industry to

receive this certification, and the CC EAL4+

certification for EulerOS.

● Released the Huawei Trustworthiness

Framework.

● Continued our research and exploration

into cutting-edge technologies, including

AI trustworthiness, post-quantum security,

differential privacy, and the digital trust

mechanism.

Trustworthiness

Context

Closed systems Open systems Intelligent systems ... A system of systems

Principles

Do as promised Apply what we learn Self-evolve Respect rules Proactively uncover issues and drive improvement

Approaches

Governance &

preparation

Continual

improvement

Theories & technology

Definition Realization Use

Properties

Resilience Security Privacy Safety Reliability Availability

Huawei is one of the largest patent holders

in the world. As of December 31, 2019,

the number of active patents held by Huawei

exceeded:

85,000

30,000+

Active patents

granted in China:

50,000+

Active patents

granted outside China:

40,000+

Active patents granted in

Europe and the US:

The Huawei Trustworthiness Framework incorporates the industry’s best system engineering practices into Huawei’s end-to-end process

and helps improve Huawei’s overall capabilities in delivering trustworthy, quality products to customers.