Description: This document describes the security features of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™ and provides an overview of the BlackBerry® security architecture.
This document describes the security features that BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 4.1, BlackBerry Desktop Software version 4.1, and BlackBerry Device Software version 4.1 support, unless otherwise stated. See the documentation for earlier versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Desktop Software, and BlackBerry Device Software to determine if a feature is supported in that earlier software version.
See the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Security Acronym Glossary for the full terms substituted by the acronyms in this document.
Many companies are realizing significant return on investments and productivity gains by extending their enterprise information to mobile employees. With an increased demand for mobile content and the threat of information theft, companies have concerns about addressing security needs and requirements when evaluating wireless solutions. Without an effective security model, your company might expose sensitive corporate data, with financial and legal implications.
With the advent of powerful new personal devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants that can access and store sensitive corporate data, controlling access to these devices is an important issue. Leaving devices with remote access to sensitive data accessible to potentially malicious users could be dangerous.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution (consisting of a BlackBerry device, BlackBerry Device Software, BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ software) is designed to protect your corporation from data loss or alteration in the event of
• malicious interception of data on the corporate network, while a user is sending and receiving messages and accessing corporate data wirelessly using the BlackBerry device
• an attack intended to steal corporate data, using malicious application code (for example, a virus)
• theft of the BlackBerry device
• identity theft
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