Australian Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has denied media
reports that he did not receive a security briefing about Huawei.
DigitalSENSE Business News
recalls that there had been a number of media reports in recent days about the
Australian government's decision to retain the ban on Huawei participating in
the National Broadband Network and had also suggested that Turnbull had not
received briefings from security agencies on this matter.
However, the Minister in a statement said that whether as the opposition
spokesman, or now as the Minister for Communications, he has always had regular
technical briefings and discussions on these matters with the country's
security agencies both before and after the election.
"we can't all become telecom engineers or software developers (I
certainly lay no claim to that level of technical expertise), but in order
better to protect ourselves from cyber attack we need to question and learn
from those engineers and specialists to raise our own layman's level of
understanding of where and how risks can develop and what we must do to manage
and mitigate them," the statement said.
DigitalSENSE Business News
gathered that Huawei had expressed surprise and disappointment that the
Australian government had decided to maintain the ban on it as a supplier.
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