Security Knowledge Base. Wireless Data Security at BlackBerry.com. Wireless Data Security at BlackBerry.com. Security Government - Advanced Security Features. The PGP Support Package is third-party software for BlackBerry smartphones that adds PGP Desktop and PGP Universal support. This support allows companies with existing PGP infrastructure in place to extend this infrastructure wirelessly using BlackBerry smartphones. It provides customers with sender-to-recipient email security. The PGP Support Package for BlackBerry works in conjunction with the PGP Universal solution.
PGP Universal utilizes patented PGP Additional Decryption Key (ADK) capabilities, automated key management and recovery, and automated enrollment and centralized policy management. PGP support is fully integrated in the BlackBerry user interface and provides extended security features, including: Support for encrypting and decrypting email messages: users simply authenticate themselves with their private key passphrase before decrypting or signing email on their BlackBerry smartphone.
BlackBerry Security Approvals and Certifications. BlackBerry | Smart Card Reader. BlackBerry | Smart Card Reader. Security Resources. Enterprise Solution - Security Bulletins. KB27244-Vulnerabilities in BlackBerry Enterprise Server components that process images could allow remote code execution. The Most Secure Android Phone, Ever. A new German project makes Android phones significantly more secure for business communications--this could change the way people use smartphones, entirely.
The project, Bizztrust, creates virtual "work phones" on Android smartphones, and employs BlackBerry-style encryption to guarantee secure communications. The new product has the potential to create headaches for Research In Motion (RIM), which uses security as a major selling point for BlackBerrys. Bizztrust is a modified version of the Android operating system that separates all installed applications into separate "work" and "personal" partitions.
Control over apps in the "work" partition is handled by the end user's corporate IT team, which automatically updates and deletes work apps as needed. All software installed on Bizztrust-enabled Androids is automatically scanned before the user logs on to their company's network via VPN; if any irregularities are detected, the user will not be able to use compromised apps.
Public-Key Encryption Security for RIM BlackBerry Devices. “We need to add strong security to our application for the RIM BlackBerry, but without impacting performance of the application on the device.” Challenge As a leading wireless connectivity solution, the RIM BlackBerry® provides access to a wide range of applications on a variety of devices around the world. Developers of these applications need to secure the data transmitted to and from their solutions but adding comprehensive security to an application presents numerous challenges, including the transmission of the key and the effect on performance.
Solution A cryptosystem that leverages the advantages of both symmetric and public-key cryptography is one possible solution. The RIM Crypto API includes both symmetric cryptography classes from RIM and public-key cryptography classes from Certicom to provide all the security required. Certicom provides many ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography)-based public-key cryptography classes. Value. RIM Acquires Smartphone Security Software Developer Ubitexx. BlackBerry developer Research In Motion is definitely on a shopping spree. A week after announcing the acquisition of social calendering application Tungle.me, the company is buying smartphone software security developer Ubitexx.
Terms of the acquisition, which was announced on Ubitexx’s home page, were not disclosed. Ubitexx, which raised over $4 million in funding, develops and distributes management and security software for smartphones and mobile devices. The company also provides strategic mobile management consulting, training and installation, and technical support services. In a press release, RIM says that Ubitexx’s software, ubi-Suite, will be used to power device management, security and controls for BlackBerry’s Enterprise Server as well as for Android and iOS based devices and tablets, all managed from a single web-based console.
Smartphone security is a hot space. RIM PlayBook’s Security Edge Over IPad May Not Last. Research in Motion Ltd.’s PlayBook tablet computer, panned at its April debut, has an edge over Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPad in the Army thanks to RIM’s encrypted servers. That advantage may soon dissipate as Apple’s more broadly popular devices march toward Defense Department security certification, which may come as early as this month, military officials said. Tablet computers are being tested across all military branches, according to interviews conducted by Bloomberg Government since May 17. The services pay $500 to $600 per tablet, less than half the cost of laptops that are “ruggedized,” or enhanced with a shell and toughened to withstand harsh environments.
The U.S. Apple, Dell Inc. An employee demonstrates a Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry PlayBook tablet device at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. An employee demonstrates a Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry PlayBook tablet device... Close Open Photographer: Denis Doyle/Bloomberg ‘Disruptive Technology’