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About BlackBerry Device
Service solution security
BlackBerry Device Service solution security
The BlackBerry Device Service solution consists of various components and features that extend your organization's
communication methods to BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Device Service solution protects data that is in transit at all
points between a device and the BlackBerry Device Service.
To protect data that is in transit over Wi-Fi and mobile networks, the BlackBerry Device Service and the device use
symmetric key cryptography to encrypt the data sent between them. The BlackBerry Device Service solution is designed to
prevent third parties, including wireless service providers, from accessing your organization's potentially sensitive
information in a decrypted format.
The BlackBerry Device Service solution uses confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity to help protect your organization
from data loss or alteration and to ensure that you can have confidence in the security of BlackBerry products.
Principles Description
Confidentiality The BlackBerry Device Service solution uses symmetric key cryptography to make sure
that only intended recipients can view the contents of email messages.
Integrity The BlackBerry Device Service solution uses symmetric key cryptography to protect every
email message that the device sends and to prevent third parties from decrypting or
altering the message data.
Only the BlackBerry Device Service and the 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 Device Service or the device rejects a message automatically if it
is not encrypted with keys that they recognize as valid.
Authenticity Before the BlackBerry Device Service sends data to the device, the device authenticates
with the BlackBerry Device Service to prove that the device knows the device transport key
that is used to encrypt data.
The BlackBerry Device Service solution prevents counterfeit devices from impersonating
authentic devices by authenticating each device that attempts to register with the
BlackBerry Infrastructure.
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