Specifications

Using BlackBerry Balance to

secure BlackBerry PlayBook

tablets in your organization’s

environment for work use

Your organization can use BlackBerry Balance technology to permit users to use BlackBerry PlayBook tablets for both work

and personal use. For example, your organization might want to permit users to activate their personal devices on the

BlackBerry Device Service or permit users to use devices that your organization provides for personal use.

The BlackBerry Device Service permits you to manage the work file system on tablets that run BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0

or later. Security features on tablets can control how the tablet helps protect your organization's data and applications.

The BlackBerry Device Service security features allow you to:

• Control the connections that tablets make to your organization's environment, including connections to your work Wi-Fi

networks and Microsoft ActiveSync

• Install and manage your organization's applications on tablets

• Protect your organization's data and applications on tablets

How BlackBerry PlayBook tablets

distinguish between work data and personal

data

Work data consists of IT policies, profiles, and software configurations that the BlackBerry Device Service and BlackBerry

PlayBook tablets send to each other, data (such as email messages, calendar entries, and attachments) that tablets

receive from your organization's network using connections with the BlackBerry Device Service.

To help protect work data, tablets automatically create a work space in the BlackBerry PlayBook OS during the activation

process that isolates work data and work apps from personal data and personal apps. Tablets encrypt the work file system

using XTS-AES-256 encryption.

Security Technical

Overview

Using BlackBerry Balance to secure BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in your organization’s environment

for work use