Huawei CloudEngine Data Center Switches Earn Internationally Renowned Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification

In March 2022, Huawei's CloudEngine 16800, 8800, and 6800 series data center switches passed the security evaluation by the European independent security evaluation lab SGS Brightsight, and earned Common Criteria (CC) Evaluation Assurance Level 4 Augmented (EAL4+) from third-party certification body TÜV Rheinland. CC EAL4+ is the highest level of assurance for network products. These series of switches are the industry's first switch models to achieve the CC certification with identical security functionality claims of the Network Device Collaborative Protection Profile (NDcPP).

CC provides assurance that information technology (IT) products and solutions meet certain levels of security, reliability, and privacy protection. It is the most recognized and trusted IT product security certification in the world and serves as an important basis for product security evaluation in enterprise IT solution construction.

As digitalization ramps up, new ICT infrastructure – the foundation of the digital economy – is gradually transforming into a data center-centric architecture. This in turn creates significant challenges in security and reliability for data center networks. Data center networks need to strengthen their security systems. At the same time, they need to be ready for increasingly diverse attacks.

Huawei CloudEngine data center switches ensure product security and trustworthiness at the following layers:

• Architecture security: The security framework focuses on access security and operation security, building the layer-by-layer defense capabilities of switches along possible attack paths.
• Environment security: A secure product development environment is built through mechanisms such as network isolation, security authentication, and permission minimization.
• Release and deployment security: End-to-end delivery integrity protection is realized through defense against tampering, source tracing, trusted sources, and malicious download protection.

In addition, Huawei ensures security and trustworthiness by using an independent security test platform for its products. Huawei will continue to innovate in data center network products, laying a solid foundation for data center infrastructure connections and building secure and reliable next-generation data centers.