Huawei forced to defend Whitehall bugging claims We are a private, employee-owned company, and we share the same goal as our customers - to raise the standard of cyber security, and to ensure technology benefits consumers. The latest controversy comes a month after the Government ordered GCHQ, its intelligence agency, to oversee Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, which analyses the company's equipment to identify potential security risks. Huawei also had to deny claims made last July by Michael Hayden, the former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, that it shared "intimate" knowledge of foreign telecommunications systems with the Chinese state. Huawei has been supplying network equipment for Britain's national infrastructure since it was awarded a contract by BT in 2005.