The meeting was first revealed by John Suffolk, Huawei's global head of cybersecurity, during an interview, Reuters .

The company is not just interested in fixing the particular flaws reported by Lindner, but in making systemic changes that would make its products more secure in the long term, Suffolk said in the interview.

Felix "FX" Lindner is the technical and research lead at Recurity Labs, an IT security consultancy company based in Germany. This year, he in Huawei home and small enterprise routers during the Defcon and Hack in The Box security conferences.

He also criticized the company for the lack of transparency when it comes to security issues and .

"I was surprised to learn that they told the press about this meeting before it actually took place, but it is correct that such a meeting is planned," Lindner said via email. "What Huawei's goals are for the meeting is not known to me yet."