« Secured Product » and « Trusted Company »: Lessons for the Digital Society from the Huawei Case

In February 2019, I wrote a note for the ASIA Focus on the use of drone as a tool for security about the terrestrial road of the OBOR project due to its connectivity. Hence, a drone manufacturer becomes a security provider because it determines the trustworthiness of the data flows and their accessibility. I took the case of DJI as the dominant market provider to illustrate the consequence : the “security challenge”. Last month, on august 2019, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made a push to rebuild the industrial base to develop commercial drones that could be securely modified by the military for use on the battlefield. A standard for cybersecurity will have to be establish and trustfully followed by the manufacturers. Indeed, the Pentagon is worried that DJI shares data with the Chinese government. It has launched what is calling a “Trusted capital marketplace to connect trusted sources of capital with US small tech firms to catch up to China in the small drone market” where DJI get already a 2/3 market share. (SELIGMAN, 2019) A drone is a sample case of a connected object or the Internet of Thing (IoT) which is rising for the next decade if and only if, the communication network capacities will be upgrade to the “5G” technology. The prerequisite of the IoT or the “Digital society” is the deployment of the “5G” technology…