BlackBerry announces availability of BBM service, BBMTM Protected, for enterprises

NEW DELHI: BlackBerry on Monday introduced BBM Protected, the first solution in the eBBM Suite for secure corporate messaging.

BBM Protected solution provides an enhanced security model for BBM messages sent between BlackBerry smartphones. The eBBM Suite is a family of BBM products and services built for business.

It uses an FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic library, which has made it the only secure mobile instant messaging app in the market, according to the company.

"BBM Protected is the ideal solution for our banking and insurance customers who have increased security needs," Zekeria Oezdemir, Technical Director of NovaLink, said in a statement.

The company claims that BBM Protected offers regulated industries the most secure and reliable real-time mobile messaging experience in the industry.

With BBM Protected, employees can use the same app to securely message colleagues inside the company for work as they do to chat and share with family and friends outside the company.

The family features additional security and compliance required by enterprise customers, the company said.

BlackBerry said that the eBBM Suite will include new services that will enable mobile workers to be more productive on the go.

The current release of BBM Protected can be used for BlackBerry smartphones running BB0S 6.0 platform or later or BlackBerry 10 platform in Regulated mode.

The company said that versions of BBM Protected for BlackBerry 10 smartphones using BlackBerry Balance and iOS and Android devices will be rolled out later this year.