2019 Annual Report (^77)
■ Employee skills enhancement: We conducted
training across a range of cyber security and
privacy protection topics and held exams for all
Huawei employees, with a 99% success rate.
Employees continue to be encouraged to improve
their cyber security and privacy expertise through
external training and professional certification. To
date, more than 500 employees have obtained
external professional certifications such as IAPP
(privacy) and CISSP (cyber security). Our Cyber
Security & Privacy Protection Knowledge Center,
a one-stop learning and training platform, was
launched and is already helping employees
improve their skills and enhance their knowledge.
Over 620,000 hours of coursework has been
completed by our employees, with a total of more
than 290,000 individual enrollments in our 111
courses. This means the average Huawei employee
spent two hours taking cyber security and privacy
training.
■ User privacy protection obligations: Huawei
remains committed to complying with privacy
protection laws and regulations around the
world. We have adopted industry-recognized best
practices, and have embedded Privacy by Design
into product and service development processes.
These initiatives contribute to a holistic framework
for personal privacy protection policy. We have
increased our investment in the management of
data subject rights assurance, developed explicit
management requirements and processes, and
deployed them in a unified IT system ensuring
that we can promptly and effectively process data
subjects’ requests. To date, we have handled more
than 10,000 data subjects’ requests. In addition,
we completed 26 internal audits to ensure that
our personal privacy protection policy has been
implemented in a consistent and effective manner,
and we underwent and successfully passed
five external audits as well as one professional
inspection by a regulator.
■ AI governance: In 2019, Huawei released the
Thinking Ahead About AI Security and Privacy
Protection white paper, setting out Huawei’s
viewpoint on the current security and privacy
challenges surrounding AI. The paper explores
key topics such as technical reliability, societal
applications, and legal requirements and
responsibilities. In addition, the paper proposes a
number of feasible governance models, including
planning trustworthy technical solutions, and
adopting a shared responsibility model for AI
security and privacy. The paper calls on all
stakeholders to work together towards shared
goals and for the healthy development of AI into
the future.
Our experience tells us that no one has a monopoly
on all of the good ideas and the more we share, the
more we discuss the challenges we all face, the better
solutions, standards and approaches we can develop
to raise the benchmark for all. Huawei remains
determined to communicate and cooperate with
stakeholders in a manner characterized by openness
& transparency, integrity & trustworthiness, and
accountability. We strive to address cyber security and
privacy protection challenges through technological
innovation, standards development, and management
improvement. We are relentless in our mission to help
customers establish their own cyber resilience and risk
mitigation strategies.
On March 5, 2019, Huawei unveiled a Cyber Security
Transparency Centre in Brussels. This center serves
as a platform where government agencies, technical
experts, industry associations, and standards
organizations can communicate and collaborate to
address the issue of cyber security. The center has
three major functions:
- The center showcases Huawei’s end-to-end cyber
security practices, from strategies and supply chain
to R&D and products and solutions. - The center facilitates communication and cooperation
between Huawei and key stakeholders to explore
and promote the development of security
standards and verification mechanisms, facilitating
technological innovation in cyber security across
the industry. - The center provides a product security testing and
verification platform and related services to Huawei
customers.