BlackBerry announced their eBBM suite of business products earlier this year, and they've made good on their promise. The suite is aimed at enterprise users, therefore security is a central focus. BlackBerry today released the first app in the suite, BBM Protected. The secure chat app offers enterprise users several layers of encryption to protect against eavesdropping.
Each message in BBM has its own encryption key, making eavesdropping nearly impossible. BBM Protected is also available across company lines. In other words, anyone running BBM Protected can communicate with each other without being on the same corporate server.
BBM Protected is available now to devices running BBOS 6.0 or later and BB's running BlackBerry 10 in Regulated mode. Android and iOS versions should launch later this year.
Each message in BBM has its own encryption key, making eavesdropping nearly impossible. BBM Protected is also available across company lines. In other words, anyone running BBM Protected can communicate with each other without being on the same corporate server.
BBM Protected is available now to devices running BBOS 6.0 or later and BB's running BlackBerry 10 in Regulated mode. Android and iOS versions should launch later this year.