Dahua Says Gear Poses No Security Threat
Dahua USA is fighting back at the FCC to keep from having its products barred from being authorized for use in the U.S. Dahua is already on the FCC’s “covered list” of mostly Chinese companies that are a security risk.…
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After meeting with aides to Commissioner Brendan Carr last week (see 2209220049), Dahua met with staff from the Office of General Counsel. Dahua “discussed an overview of its equipment sold in North America and explained how Dahua Equipment is typically considered a peripheral device, and many of its products are neither video nor telecommunications equipment,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 21-232 on the latter meeting: The company “then described its cybersecurity firmware strategy, framework, and design, emphasized that cybersecurity is the most important focus of its product design.”