BlackBerry Enterprise Solution security

BlackBerry Enterprise Solution security

The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution consists of various products and components that are designed to extend your organization’s communication methods to BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is designed to protect data that is in transit at all points between a BlackBerry device and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. To protect data that is in transit over the wireless network, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry device use symmetric key cryptography to encrypt the data. Only the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry device can decrypt the data that they send between each other. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server is designed to prevent third parties, including wireless service providers, from accessing your organization's potentially sensitive information in a decrypted format.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution uses confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity, which are principles for information security, to help protect your organization from data loss or alteration.

Principles	Description
confidentiality	The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution uses symmetric key cryptography to help make sure that only intended recipients can view the contents of email messages.
integrity	The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution uses symmetric key cryptography to help protect every email message that the BlackBerry device sends and to help prevent third parties from decrypting or altering the message data. Only the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry device know the value of the keys that they use to encrypt messages and recognize the format of a decrypted and decompressed message. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry device reject a message automatically that is not encrypted with keys that they recognize as valid.
authenticity	Before the BlackBerry Enterprise Server sends data to the BlackBerrydevice, the BlackBerry device authenticates with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to prove that the BlackBerry device knows the device transport key that is used to encrypt data.