Re: Securing Blackberries
Hey Murad,
Try this link. http://www.resourcecenter.blackberry.com/index.php?page=details&eventSelected=189
I found this helpful.
Robert L. Dixon, CSO
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>>> Shawn Badger <sbadger@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>
Novell Zen has a PDA portion for managing PDA's, including software
installs and many other options.
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:20 -0600, Jon Gucinski wrote:
> I'm currently working on a similar project myself, with more of a focus
> on PocketPC/WindowsMobile. I actually posted a similar inquiry last
> week, with no response as of yet.
>
> As far as the devices themselves, there's a number of ways you can
> secure them, albeit non-natively. Things to consider are password
> policy, device encryption, BT/WiFi/IrDA/SDCard restrictions, "poison
> pills" or remote wipe capabilities, remote PW resets and the like. From
> my research, Credant Technologies (www.credant.com) and TrustDigital
> (www.trustdigital.com) each make PDA security products that will encrypt
> and secure a BlackBerry.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Jon
>
> >>> Murad Talukdar <talukdar_m@xxxxxxxxxx> 1/23/2006 1:27 am >>>
> We are going to be rolling out Blackberries(ys?) to our mobile staff
> and I
> wanted to know if anyone knows of any white papers or advisories on
> securing
> them.
>
> We are already looking at the usual mobile device security practices we
> have
> in place but I would like something more specific for the device.
>
> We will be using the BIS service(ie no Exchange server run in-house,
> all
> mail goes via the provider's BB server.) Some would say this is
> inherently
> insecure but this is a financial reality that we have to live with.
>
> There is encryption between the device and the provider and vice versa
> but
> I'm not sure what type of encryption it will use--maybe AES or 3DES. I
> still
> have no definite answer.
>
> However, is there any native way of encrypting data on the device
> itself?
>
> Blackberry's site is thin for anything like this-it has plenty for the
> BES
> solution--I'm just unsure as to how different BIS will be in this
> respect.
>
> The provider's tech team has been a little sketchy too, they have only
> just
> begun to roll these out to customers so I'm guessing that they know as
> much
> as I do--which is not a huge amount.(I actually had to tell them that
> we
> would be able to use the BIS system when none of them knew if our pop3
> server would be able to work with it.)
> Googling this seems to give me a lot of vague docs but nothing in the
> way of
> specifics.
>
> Kind Regards
> Murad Talukdar
>
>
>
>
>
>
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