BlackBerry
is on the cusp of unveiling eBBM suite of products. This will not only
provide another revenue stream for the company, but give its enterprise
customers additional security when using the messaging platform.
While the company has been relatively silent on the features and
monthly subscription price, it did show a quick demo of how BBM
Protected will work at one of the recent BlackBerry experience events.
BlackBerry noted that BBM Protected will offer up an “unrivalled level
of trust in enterprise messaging with end-to-end encryption of
messages.” For those looking for a bit more detail on this upcoming app,
a full description, via N4BB, has surfaced online that gives a good insight into what it’ll provide for you.
Secure mobile messaging with BBM Protected – BBM
Protected allows employees to take advantage of the speed, reliability
and privacy of BBM for faster communication, collaboration and decision
making while providing security conscious organizations enhanced
enterprise grade security over corporate data.
Protect your assets end to end – BBM Protected is
the only secure mobile instant messaging app that uses a FIPS 140-2
validated cryptographic library. Whether you’re a regulated business, or
a highly security conscious organization, BBM Protected offers an
enhanced security model for BBM messages sent between BlackBerry
smartphones. BBM Protected protects corporate data in transit by adding
an additional layer of encryption to BBM and follows the BES model by
having the encryption keys under the control of your organization.
Protecting data in transit – BBM Protected is
designed to provide full end to end message encryption from the time
that a BBM Protected user sends a message to when the recipient receives
the message. BBM Protected introduces a new layer of encryption to the
existing BBM security model. These 3 layers of security work together to
offer advanced enterprise grade protection of BBM messages end to end
in transit.
BBM Protected introduces a new layer of encryption where your organization holds the encryption keys.
– Messages between BBM Protected users are encrypted using a PGP like
model. The sender and recipient have unique public / private encryption
and signing keys. These keys are generated on the device, by the FIPS
140-2 certified cryptographic library, and are controlled by the
enterprise. BBM and BlackBerry are not involved in brokering the key
exchanges so at no time are they stored within the BlackBerry
infrastructure. Plus, each message uses a new random symmetric key for
message encryption. Even if one message in a conversation were somehow
compromised, the remaining messages would remain protected. Triple DES
168-bit BBM scrambling key encrypts messages on the sender’s smartphone,
and is used to authenticate and decrypt messages on the recipient’s
phone. TLS encryption between the smartphone and the BBM infrastructure
helps protect BBM messages from eavesdropping or manipulation.
Protecting data on the device – BBM Protected builds
upon the proven BlackBerry security model, trusted by security
conscious organizations around the world. The secure root of trust
starts in hardware and extends up through software and application
layers helping to protect BBM messages at all times when they are at
rest on the device.
Turbocharge employee productivity – Speed up
communication, collaboration and sharing between employees with the
speed, confidence and privacy loved by over 85 million BBM users
worldwide.
Security made simple – All the added security
offered by BBM Protected happens in the background. When a BBM Protected
user sends a message, if the recipient is also a BBM Protected user
then their conversation is automatically subject to the added level of
encryption. BBM Protected works seamlessly with one-to-one BBM chats,
multi person chats and even BBM Groups. There’s no compromise to what
you can do over BBM with BBM Protected, so employees have access to all
the great features that make it ideal for work and play.
A single app for all chats – inside and outside the
company – BBM Protected enables employees to use the same app to
securely message colleagues inside the company for work as they do to
chat and share with family and friends outside the company. BBM
Protected chats aren’t limited to users inside the company either;
employees can chat securely with BBM Protected users at others companies
too – they do not need to be on the same BES server and no federation
between servers is required. All this happens seamlessly through a
single contact list and single chat list making messaging with BBM
Protected fast, easy and hassle free.
Designed for mobile. Built for speed. – BBM is the
ideal business communication tool because it’s mobile and fast! Messages
on BBM are read within seconds and unlike enterprise IM clients that
originated on the desktop, BBM offers a better mobile experience – one
that employees will embrace and enjoy on their smartphones. BBM is built
for action allowing one to one chats, group discussions, file sharing,
and BBM Voice calls to happen with speed and mobility you can’t get over
email so that employees can be more responsive and more efficient.
Know they read your message – Communicate
confidently with delivery and read notifications that let you know that
the other person has received and actually saw your message. Because
sometimes knowing it got there just isn’t enough.
Leverage your investment in BlackBerry – BBM
Protected is designed to offer the security benefits of a behind the
firewall on premise solution with the convenience benefits of a cloud
solution.
Easy to deploy & manage – It’s easy to equip your users with BBM
Protected. Unlike other IM solutions which often require your
organization to purchase additional hardware, deploy additional servers,
federate with other systems and learn new management consoles, BBM
Protected is added as an IT policy through the BES console you are using
today. There’s no new hardware to purchase, no new servers to install,
and no BlackBerry smartphone operating system software updates required.
And with IT policy amalgamation, you can quickly add BBM Protected to
existing IT policies.
Secure intercompany messaging comes built-in –
Messages between BBM Protected users are automatically encrypted using
the advanced public / private key pair – even if those users work in
different companies, and all without any complex, costly federation
required.
Powerful management and control – BBM Protected
works with the logging and auditing capabilities available through BES
today allowing you to meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
John Chen, BlackBerry’s CEO, stated in an interview this week that we all can expect eBBM suite of products to be available sometime this month.
Culled From Mobile Syrup
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