The Security Assessment Commission, under the Higher Council on Cyberspace Security, considered the use of equipment from countries outside the EU, NATO or OECD as a “high risk” to the security of 5G networks and services.
According to a decision published on the website of the National Security Service, the entity warns against the “high risk to the security of national networks and services arising from the implementation and use of 5G technology, the use of equipment and services that come from a supplier or provider that fills in” one or more criteria.
That is the former “the legal system of the country in which it is located or with which it is connected in any other relevant way enables the government to control, intervene or exert pressure on its activities in third countries”.
The second criterion is the supplier “is domiciled or otherwise relevantly tied to a country that is not a member state of the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), or the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD))”.
The organization also warns of countries that do not have “legislation or diplomatic agreements with Portugal or the EU in the field of data protection, or cybersecurity, or the protection of intellectual property”.
“High risk”, he also believed, are countries recognized as responsible by Portugal, the EU or NATO (NATO) “for actions hostile to the security and national defense of Portugal or its allies, namely espionage or sabotage”.
Finally, he warned countries that exercise “repeatedly in violation of international law and in particular the Charter of the United Nations and respective solutions aimed at promoting responsible behavior in an open, safe and secure cyberspace”who has “lack of transparency in its corporate governance” and whose production and supply chains depend on any of these countries.
The entity performed a security assessment in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 62 of the Law on Electronic Communications, approved by Law No. Public Electronic Communications of the 5th Generation Telecommunications (5G) in Portugal, resulting in these conclusions.
Source: DN
