12-05-2025
Huawei strengthens cybersecurity with unified, AI-powered solutions
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Huawei hosted a successful media briefing earlier this week at GISEC GLOBAL, the Middle East's largest cybersecurity event. Under the theme 'Establishing a Unified Cybersecurity Foundation to Safeguard the Expanding Digital and Intelligent Landscape,' the discussion addressed the critical cybersecurity challenges of our rapidly evolving digital era.
The session brought together media representatives from across the GCC, underscoring the regional importance of cybersecurity collaboration. The panel featured insights from Huawei's top cybersecurity experts: Dr Zhu Shenggao, Vice President of AI at Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia; Richard Wu, President of the Security Product Domain in the Data Communication Product Line; and Yongjian Li, President of Data Protection at Huawei. The session was moderated by Colm Murphy from the Huawei European Cybersecurity Center.
The briefing reinforced Huawei's position as 'Your Reliable Partner in the Digital and Intelligent World' through its comprehensive security governance system. Drawing on over 30 years of experience and defending against trillions of attacks, Huawei has developed advanced security models that update in real time and evolve rapidly. These capabilities are integrated into Huawei's intelligent security system, structured around its 'one center, seven defenses' framework.
At the core of this transformation is Huawei's principled approach to cybersecurity: security that is built-in and based on verification aligned with common standards; a commitment to being a secure, trustworthy provider; comprehensive governance systems; secure technologies developed through collaboration; active contributions to industry standards; and a strong respect for privacy and data sovereignty.
Yongjian Li, President of Data Protection at Huawei, also unveiled the OceanProtect E8000, a next-generation data protection system featuring a 3-in-1 converged architecture. This system integrates backup software servers, short-term retention storage, and long-term retention storage into a single solution.
Key benefits include:
Five times faster recovery performance, restoring 1TB of data in just 20 seconds
High-density 2PB/2U capacity, reducing rack space usage by up to 90 per cent compared to conventional solutions
Dr Zhu Shenggao, Vice President of AI at Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, emphasised Huawei Cloud's transition from cloud-native to AI-native security systems. Huawei leverages three decades of security operations data and advanced computing power to power its Pangu security model, which automates 99 per cent of threat responses and significantly shortens threat detection and tracing times.
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Key AI-based security assurances include:
Environment protection through real-time threat detection and rapid resolution
Data protection via encryption, watermarking, and tracking to prevent leaks
Model reliability ensured through rigorous training for accuracy and reduced errors
Content safety upheld by ethical safeguards and attack prevention mechanisms
Unified security framework: Cloud to endpoint
Richard Wu, President of the Security Product Domain, highlighted Huawei's integrated 'Endpoint-Network-Security' platform, designed to combat ransomware and enhance data recovery. The solution unifies cloud, network, edge, and endpoint security under a single framework.
Huawei's new Xinghe Intelligent Unified SASE Solution addresses growing cybersecurity threats resulting from cloud migration, branch breakouts, and hybrid working. With 85 per cent of enterprises moving services to the cloud and 80 per cent of traffic now directly routed from branches, attack surfaces are expanding rapidly.
Key elements of the SASE solution:
AI Security Brain with over 8,000 built-in rules handles 99 per cent of alarms automatically
Ultra-large-scale networking supporting up to 20,000 branches—50 per cent more than the industry average
AI firewall at the edge detects 95 per cent of unknown threats.
HiSec Endpoint boosts detection rates by 50 per cent over traditional antivirus solutions
Huawei's SASE platform has earned Tolly certification, reinforcing its operational and detection superiority.
Advanced threat detection and unified defense architecture
Huawei's intelligent security system uses a 'one center, seven defenses' framework. Its SecMaster unified security operations center enhances detection accuracy to over 99 per cent, reduces investigation time by 83 per cent, and accelerates attack source tracing by 95 per cent.
AI-powered security models are used to:
Improve classification and identification of sensitive data
Detect abnormal access behaviors and potential leaks
Recognise ransomware encryption attempts in databases
Local partnerships strengthen regional security
Huawei continues to deepen regional cooperation. In 2024, it signed a strategic partnership with Jeraisy, a leading network provider in Saudi Arabia, to jointly deliver advanced SASE solutions tailored to the Middle East market.
Richard Wu noted the region's rapid growth and the presence of major MSPs and carriers such as Saudi Telecom Company, emphasising Huawei's commitment to regional collaboration and digital development.
Compliance and cloud security governance
To align with national cybersecurity strategies, Huawei Cloud introduced its Cloud Service Cybersecurity and Compliance Standard (3CS). Based on more than 16 global security standards, 3CS ensures robust governance and facilitates regulatory compliance.
Huawei Cloud holds CSA STAR Certification, covering data protection, risk management, and infrastructure security, among other areas. This validates Huawei's standing as a globally trusted cloud provider.
Tackling multi-cloud security and sovereignty
In response to growing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, SecMaster provides unified security operations across endpoints, edge, network, and cloud. It consolidates tools, integrates threat intelligence, and enables national-level threat hunting.
Huawei Cloud's security governance framework addresses data sovereignty and regulatory challenges by consolidating over 20 global standards and 130 compliance certifications into a unified system, streamlining the path to compliance.
Ensuring data resilience amid evolving threats
To defend against ransomware and ensure business continuity, Huawei Storage integrates AI for enhanced threat detection. The use of all-flash media accelerates backup and recovery, while a 99.9 per cent reliable active-active architecture ensures system uptime and trust in the recovery process.
