Qualcomm cautions against overly focusing on single threat such as Huawei in securing 5G

A key industry leader is warning against U.S. officials’ preoccupation with combating a single cybersecurity threat – Chinese equipment providers – and is promoting a vision of more diverse and resilient networks, which could also help Western companies compete economically against telecom giant Huawei.

“So much of the conversation right now is around malicious back doors, that I think we’re missing the fact that we need to do risk mitigation for all kinds of back doors that could be exploited...