A few weeks ago, at the Mobile World Congress 2015, Blackberry announced the ‘BBM Protected’ feature, which essentially protects users, their customers, partners, and clients from costly data security breaches. ‘BBM Protected’ is now available for Android & iOS devices.
Announcing this on the official Blackberry blog, Product Marketing Lead Jessica Malik said: The average cost per data breach for a firm has now exceeded US $6 million, according to the Ponemon Institute. Yet, most enterprises still overlook secure mobile messaging, exposing their data to all sorts of vulnerabilities. Despite this gap in their IT armor, enterprises continue to let employees adopt consumer instant messaging apps, aka BYOS (Bring Your Own Service), for speed and productivity. Cleaning up after a data breach can obliterate all those productivity gains, though. Now is the time for IT admins to take back control of their mobile and instant messaging to secure how all data is exchanged both inside the enterprise and, more importantly, with their customers and partners.
BBM Protected, she said, offered an enterprise-grade secure instant messaging service with all the features of a consumer IM app, the hardening of on-premise security together with the convenience of a Cloud service. All messages were encrypted using keys generated by the communicating mobile devices themselves. This BlackBerry innovation effectively prevented ‘man in the middle’ hacker attacks, providing greater security than competing encryption schemes, & earning BBM Protected FIPS 140-2 validation by the U.S. Department of Defense.
With the announcement, organizations using BBM Protected can now let their employees chat securely using BBM Protected to non-BBM Protected workers at other companies, or customers. The result: instant federation and bulletproof security for messaging communications with partners outside of your enterprise, wrote Malik.
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