ROBUST SECURITY

The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is built with corporate data security in mind. It features an end-to-end security model designed to seamlessly protect your corporate information from attack as users send and receive email and access data wirelessly.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution safeguards the integrity, confidentiality and authenticity of your corporate data with a strong encryption scheme that keeps data encrypted while it is in transit between the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones.

Companies tend to have three areas that they are concerned with when it comes to wireless solutions. First and foremost, they need to protect the information that is sent outside of their network. Secondly, they need to manage their deployments with the ability to apply corporate and security policies on usage. Thirdly, they need to meet various regulatory and compliance requirements.

To get the balance right, a mobile solution needs to have security embedded into the devices and the supporting infrastructure. Security features built into the solution need to be as unobtrusive as possible so that they don't detract from a positive user experience.

The approach that RIM has taken with the BlackBerry solution is to build an architecture that supports four key principles of mobile security: data confidentiality, IT policy, industry standards and independent verification.

Keeping an organisation's information confidential is essential, so protecting data in transit has really become entrance criteria for any enterprise-level solution. The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution uses strong encryption that has been validated by various security standards bodies, such as the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) program run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US, and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in Canada, as well as many others.

As mobile devices become more powerful and can store more information on them, there is an increased focus on securing data at rest. With the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution, there is built-in functionality to encrypt all of the user data stored on BlackBerry smartphones. Once you turn the feature on, and it is really transparent to the user, it provides strong encryption in the background.

Remote, centralised management features are also key to enabling organisations to manage all aspects of mobile devices; from password policies to authorising which third party applications can run on the device. With the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software, there are more than 400 policies that administrators can set, giving them full control of a BlackBerry smartphone.

The BlackBerry solution is the first mobile platform to have achieved Common Criteria Certification, setting a benchmark for the market. An international certification recognised by 25 countries around the world.

The BlackBerry Solution is used by 1,000,000 government and public sector customers worldwide, including the FBI, the MoD (UK) and the half of all UK police forces, the BlackBerry solution is recognised globally as a robust and secure mobile communications technology.