2019 Annual Report (^75)
All industries are undergoing digital transformation,
and technologies such as cloud computing, big data,
5G, IoT, and AI are being applied extensively. In
addition, business ecosystems are becoming more
open, service rollout is becoming faster, and solutions
are becoming more diversified and made available
globally. These innovations bring convenience,
opportunities and benefits. However, they also
create new challenges to cyber security and privacy
protection. In 2019, 5G became a reality. It offers
significant opportunities but also faces security
challenges brought by new services, architectures, and
technologies, as well as higher requirements in terms
of user privacy protection. AI is a new general-purpose
technology that will profoundly enhance every industry
and every organization, creating new incentives to
address existing and emerging cyber security threats.
As a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure
and smart devices, Huawei is proud to have helped
industries go digital, thereby bringing digital to
every person, home and organization. As digital
transformation initiatives accelerate across the world,
we have a clear responsibility to ensure cyber security
and privacy protection are a top priority. We have
implemented and maintained a comprehensive end-
to-end cyber security assurance system. Over the past
three decades, we have built more than 1,500 networks
together with our carrier customers, serving over
three billion people in more than 170 countries and
regions around the world, and we have maintained
a solid track record in security throughout. Huawei
is the leading provider and designer of enhancing
5G security. We have provided more manpower and
resources to the international bodies than anyone else,
and we are the No. 1 contributor of proposals to the
5G security standardization initiatives which have been
accepted and adopted by the industry. For example,
385 proposals submitted by Huawei were accepted by
3GPP SA3, which accounts for 24.6% of all proposals
accepted in 2019, making Huawei the top contributor
of security proposals.
Cyber Security and Privacy Protection
The Rapid Development of Digital Technologies Brings Both Opportunities and Challenges in
Cyber Security
Helping Our Customers Secure Their Networks and Devices with Secure, Trustworthy, and
High-Quality Products
Over the past two years, we have reviewed our
approach to security and privacy, analyzed the
directions in which new technologies are heading
and the current and future challenges facing our
customers. As a consequence, we have enhanced our
cyber security and privacy protection frameworks
operating on the assumption that in this globally
intertwined world, the ICT environment is insecure and
will face constant attacks.
Throughout 2019, the frameworks guided the way in
which we continued to drive process transformation,
solutions, security engineering capabilities, security
technologies and standards, independent verification,
supply chain, and personnel management. This has
enabled us to proactively enhance our end-to-end
cyber security assurance capabilities. Some of the key
activities undertaken in 2019 are highlighted here:
■ Heavily invested in software engineering
capability transformation to ensure secure,
trustworthy, and high-quality products: We
simplified our products and solutions as much
as possible, implemented the latest thinking
about security architecture and development, and
progressively we are upgrading all appropriate
products and solutions to the latest thinking,
technology components and partners. We have
systematically built and deployed resilient
architecture design methods, and have launched
the distributed automatic binary vulnerability
mining platform. Moreover, we have improved our
security design tools, the code security scanning
cloud, security test cloud, and fuzz test cloud.
These initiatives greatly enhanced our security
engineering capabilities enabling us to help our
customers safely digitize their businesses and
create value for their customers.
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