Huawei cybersecurity center in Rome, strong in 5G defense

(ANSA) - MILAN, MARCH 23 - "We inaugurate Huawei's first Italian cybersecurity center. In the original plans, we anticipated the opening by about six months, demonstrating the commitment to bringing excellence in the field of information security to our country ". This was stated by LucaPiccinelli, Head of Cybersecurity Huawei Italia at the opening of the Huawei Cybersecurity & Transparency Center in Rome, announced last September. "The center is not an isolated project but it is part of Huawei's broader strategy of opening up to external evaluations, because we have nothing to hide, on the contrary, we want to tell the world what we can do in the field of innovation. Only in 2020, Huawei has proposed over 250 new patents related to cyber security, and we are the first company in the world to have joined the '5G Common Criteria', which validates our products and services for the standard. " Ilcentro is active since today and provides for the possibility of carrying out analyzes and verifications requested by telco and public or private organizations, on Huawei products and third parties, precisely with the desire to answer any possible doubts about the security risks raised in recent years. "We thought we could collaborate on a large scale to ensure that there is nothing in our systems designed to harm users but it didn't. So we decided to go it alone, adapting to the monitoring needs of different countries," explained John Suffolk, Global Cybersecurity and Huawei Privacy Officer. According to recent research, the average time to identify and resolve a cyber criticality is about 85 days. "Too many believe that in this period criminals can do practically what they want. The Cybersecurity & TransparencyCenter was created to verify in real time the possibilities of attack and intrusion, on any tool and service, evidently a benefit not only for Huawei but for the whole community" closes Suffolk. (HANDLE).