​Hardware Trojan: Australia under threat?

In 2012, the Australian Federal Government placed significant pressure on relations with Beijing as it prevented the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, from tendering for the National Broadband Network (NBN). Due to the apparent intimate relationship between Huawei and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), fears were raised over the potential for hardware backdoor capabilities in the NBN to facilitate China’s growing cyber espionage. Prime Minister Julia Gillard stated, “The National Broadband Network is a piece of critical infrastructure, it is the future of our nation’s telecommunications. You would expect that as a government we would make the appropriate decisions to protect that critical infrastructure, and we have.” While this decision was applauded by domestic and international security organisations, Australia has an unbalanced risk based approach to cyber resilience. The lack of security in the cyber supply chain places Australia under threat from state-sponsored malicious networks. For the full article click here 

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