BlackBerry Furthers its Leadership in Securing the Enterprise of Things
March 19 2018 - 4:00PM
BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) (TSX:BB) today announced it is
furthering its leadership in securing the Enterprise of Things
(EoT) with a wide-range of new software capabilities aimed at
making it easier for users, IT managers, and developers to do more,
securely.
Companies choose BlackBerry to connect and secure their
endpoints, which are both physical (e.g., smartphones, tablets,
wearables) and digital (e.g., messaging, files, voice, text), as
well as aid them in the development of smart systems. The company
does this with BlackBerry Secure, an end-to-end EoT platform,
comprised of its enterprise communication and collaboration
software and safety-certified embedded solutions.
Available this Spring, the world’s largest banks, hospitals, law
firms, manufacturers and governments will now be able to have the
same secure desktop experience on any mobile device - anytime,
anyplace - with the following new BlackBerry Secure
capabilities:
Features to Improve User Productivity
- Securely use Microsoft mobile apps with BlackBerry
Enterprise BRIDGE. By making Microsoft’s mobile apps
seamlessly available from within BlackBerry Dynamics applications,
such as BlackBerry Work, users will now have a consistent
experience when opening, editing, and saving a Microsoft Office 365
file such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word on iOS® or Android™
devices.
- Unplug from work afterhours. With BlackBerry
Work’s new Do Not Disturb feature, enterprises can block email and
calendar notifications for their employees outside of normal
business hours. This feature can be overridden by individual
users.
- Keep your personal number private. With
BlackBerry WorkLife, outbound calls on a BYOD device use an
employee’s desk number, not their personal number, which keeps
their personal number private. This desk-to-mobile convergence also
allows employees to place calls on their BYOD phone by just dialing
desk extensions, and more importantly ensures that enterprises in
regulated industries can maintain call recording to ensure
compliance.
- Share photos, videos, PDF’s and other files on
persistent group chats within BlackBerry Connect.
Solutions to Simplify IT Management of Endpoints and
Notifications
- Deploy pre-configured and secure Android devices
on-demand and at scale. BlackBerry’s zero-touch enrollment
ensures the activation flow kicks off immediately, minimizing the
steps employees must take to get up and running.
- Manage the communication of IT notifications with users
from a single platform, leveraging phone, text, and mobile
notifications to drive improved compliance. For example, IT
managers can now simply send a text message to all users for alerts
such as “power outage in building C” from BlackBerry UEM.
- Support and provide Apple iOS devices that can be
easily shared by shift workers via a “check-in, check-out”
process. BlackBerry’s process doesn’t require apps and
device configuration to be removed and then re-added when changing
users, simplifying IT’s job and the end-user experience.
Software for Developers to Build Highly-Secure Systems
and Apps
- Build mission- and safety-critical systems,
such as automotive systems, rail transportation controls,
healthcare machines and industrial automation systems, with
BlackBerry’s QNX OS for Safety 2.0. Based on BlackBerry’s most
advanced and secure embedded QNX SDP 7.0 operating system, the new
software platform is certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508
SIL3, the highest levels achievable for the respective
standards.
- Gain access to user- and feature-level
analytics. BlackBerry Analytics enables developers to
understand how users interact with applications on a daily or
monthly basis, as well as the impact that device type, OS version,
or form factor has on feature usage.
- Quickly build secure file sharing into Android
applications that offer 256-bit file encryption with the
new Workspaces Android SDK.
- Provide greater security and control for corporate
application, such as managing Face ID as a means for
accessing BlackBerry Dynamics apps on iPhoneX, as well as prevent
iOS screen recording and sharing of Dynamics Apps.
“The Enterprise of Things is delivering new productivity
benefits related to how we work,” said Mark Wilson, Chief Marketing
Officer, BlackBerry. “BlackBerry’s software enables workflows to
improve using connected things, workplaces to blend across physical
and virtual locations so employees can collaborate anywhere and
anytime, and workforces to seamlessly extend across employees,
contractors and partners. Hyperconnected organizations need to
do all of this, and BlackBerry can ensure it's done in a
highly-secure way.”
Why BlackBerry Secure?BlackBerry holds more
than 80 security certifications in the industry. Gartner, Inc., the
leading provider of research and analysis on the global information
technology industry, gave BlackBerry the highest product scores for
all six use cases in its Critical Capabilities for
High-Security Mobility Management1 for the second year in a row.
The company was also named a Leader in its 2017 Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites.2
BlackBerry Secure World TourCIOs, CSOs, and
business leaders will be able to demo and learn more about the new
software features during the company’s first BlackBerry® Secure™
World Tour which will take place in ten cities in May and June.
During the all-day event, attendees will also learn how to develop
a holistic security strategy, with tools to enable boundary-free
collaboration, and best practices for digital business processes
that will transform the way their organizations work. Click here to
register to attend the BlackBerry Secure World Tour, and visit
BlackBerry.com for more information on BlackBerry Secure.
About BlackBerryBlackBerry is an enterprise
software and services company focused on securing and managing IoT
endpoints. The company does this with BlackBerry Secure, an
end-to-end Enterprise of Things platform, comprised of its
enterprise communication and collaboration software and
safety-certified embedded solutions.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry was founded in 1984 and
operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East,
Latin America and Africa. The Company trades under the ticker
symbol "BB" on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock
Exchange. For more information visit BlackBerry.com, and follow the
company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
1 Gartner, Critical Capabilities for High-Security Mobility
Management, by John Girard, Dionisio Zumerle, Rob Smith, August 24,
2017.2Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management
Suites, by Rob Smith, Bryan Taylor, et al., June 6, 2017.
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