BERLIN : German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which is digitising its operations, last December awarded a 64 million euro ($67.79 million) contract to supply most of the components for its new IP network to a company using technology from China's Huawei.The IP network will form the backbone of a new digita
BERLIN : German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which is digitising its operations, last December awarded a 64 million euro contract to supply most of the components for its new IP network to a company using technology from China's Huawei.
A DB spokesperson told Reuters that under current IT security legislation it did not have to run network components by Germany's cybersecurity office, the BSI, unlike public telecoms network operators. A BSI spokesperson said it was not aware of any law that determined the DB IT systems as"critical components".
The lawmaker from the Greens junior coalition partner said it was up to this government"to rectify as quickly as possible years of ignorance and massive shortcomings in security policy". The December contract with Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is for Huawei tech like switches and routers. These contain software that needs to be regularly updated remotely, potentially allowing for malicious updates, say cybersecurity experts.
Critics say the law, which stopped short of banning Huawei, lacked teeth though and did not require the verification of critical components for digital infrastructure in other sectors.
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