BlackBerry Still The Most Secure Smartphone…

by Robb Dunewood on May 27, 2009 · 17 comments

BlackBerry Security

It probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the BlackBerry, according to report by Maribel Lopez , formerly of Forrester Research, tops the list when it comes to mobile security in smartphones.

The report, Successful Mobile Deployments Require Robust Security, rated mobile devices in 4 different categories on a 4-point scale.  The BlackBerry received a 4 out of 4 rating in each category.

You can check the full report out here…

[Via CrackBerry]

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  • nyr2k2

    Someone tell Galen Gruman.

  • bluehorseshoe

    Somewhere in the diagram above, the Rock is trying to pull a chord to bring down the system.

    Sorry…couldn’t resist.

  • BB user

    Yeah, the most secure and the least fun.
    Highly productivity. My company will never change to different device.
    BTW, my IT department pretty much blocks every single app (non company approved apps which are like all of them) to be install on the BlackBerry. Other than check and reply e-mail, it is a useless toy that I have to carry around all day.
    Now, I can work for my company 24 hours a day without any fun.
    Yeah!

  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    bluehorseshoe,

    Yet Again…..

    Please grow up and learn to post like a adult. You have been reminded many times before RIMarkable is not for you to post your desperate personal shots and to stroke your fragile ego. Rimarkable is not a place for you to post your opinions of others or what they post. Grow Up.

  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    Galen Gruman’s well thought out article already touches on BB security….

    “Where the BlackBerry wins There are three considerations that might legitimately lead a company to choose a BlackBerry as its mobile platform, despite all its inferiorities.

    One is security. Although Apple provides more iPhone security capabilities than most people realize, it still doesn’t have the depth of messaging and device security that the BlackBerry does. Organizations running BlackBerrys can trust that both the data in transit and the data stored on the devices is secure. If a BlackBerry is lost, IT can wipe all of its data and render it useless over the air.

    Of course, most organizations don’t actually need that level of security, nor do they apply it to other devices such as laptops and employees’ home access. But if you really do follow defense or health-care industry security practices, the iPhone isn’t up to snuff yet, not even with third-party add-ons.”

    http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Mobile+Devices&articleId=9133479&taxonomyId=75&pageNumber=1

  • bluehorseshoe

    Reminded by who? You? LOL…perhaps you should take some of you own medicine. But I have to admit, you’re very entertaining. It’s hard to get laughs like the ones you provide.

  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    The BB system may be the most secure, however this type of system set up is the reason for major outages. Single point data has shown itself not to be the most reliable.

    “While coverage of the outage just goes to show how mobile devices like the BlackBerry really are becoming the next wave of personal computing, it also points out that the entire system has a single point of failure: RIM itself.
    All e-mail messages sent to or from a BlackBerry in North America must at some point in their journey travel through RIM’s network operations center (NOC) in Canada.”
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9870509-37.html

    “RIM uses a centralized architecture to filter all its e-mail traffic and push it out to consumers’ phones. Critics of the BlackBerry service and architecture say that this centralized approach makes the service more vulnerable to outages. And indeed, the company has had some serious outages in the past. In April 2007, the company’s enterprise service suffered a huge outage that left millions of corporate BlackBerry users without access to e-mail.”

    ” The smartphone market is highly competitive, and cell phone users don’t need another reason to choose an alternative device, such as Apple’s iPhone or the upcoming Palm Pre.”
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10218474-94.html

  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    bluehorseshoe,

    Yet Again….. Your off topic, desperate comments are so pathetic.

    Please grow up and learn to post like a adult. You have been reminded many times before RIMarkable is not for you to post your desperate personal shots and to stroke your fragile ego. Rimarkable is not a place for you to post your opinions of others or what they post. Grow Up.

  • bluehorseshoe

    Right…for government agencies, it’s more important to be up rather than share their email and info over a non-secured system. With all of your arguments, Mr. Rock, what would you recommend as the ideal infrastructure that meets everyone’s requirements? Please…enlighten us all since you are in the ‘Biz’. LOL…

  • nyr2k2

    Hey Rock, just a friendly suggestion here:

    You’re a controversial poster because of your strong opinions. That’s fine, and it’s not going to change. When a new article is posted here at RIMarkable, there’s a good chance someone is going to troll you.

    Rather than responding to every single post that offers no substance but refers to you by name, how about YOU IGNORE THEM? And act like the grownup that you want the trolls to be.

    Honestly, it’s tiresome looking for legitimate comments here when I have to wade through 5 people trolling you and 20 posts from you, taking the bait. It’s really lame that people troll you like they do, but your just as big a part of the problem as anyone.

    Just let it go, don’t waste your keystrokes, and people will leave you alone.

  • bluehorseshoe

    nyr2k2,

    We’ve all been dealing with ‘Rock’ for the past couple of years. He’s also used the handle “hellno.” He posts his usual anti-VZW crap and praises the iPhone tirelessly. He’s even been blacklisted in the past. He’ll quote sources, post links, and bore everyone with the same rhetoric. We’ve tried ignoring him, abusing him, etc. I find it best to play with him, and it’s hard to resist. If he’s going to post, then I’m going to at least have fun with the fool. He has trolled us to no end. He’s got one heck of a reputation here, BGR, etc.

  • nyr2k2

    @bluehorseshoe:

    Believe me, I know! I’ve been lurking here for quite some time, and I’ve come to know and “love” the anti-RIM, anti-Verizon posts The Rock provides us in each entry.

    I’m a mod at the largest hockey-related forum on the internet, and I’d love nothing more than to bust out the Banhammer here. =)

    I was just trying to be even-handed in my post directed to The Rock. Though I stand by my assertion that if he’d ignore posts directed towards him, they’d likely stop.

  • bluehorseshoe

    ^ Which hockey forum? My favorite sport.

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  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    bluehorseshoe,

    Yet Again….. Your off topic, desperate comments are so pathetic. Your personal, off topic post almost 24 hours ago (05.27.09 at 11:53 am) got the ball rolling right over you yet again this time. You yet again prove your ignorance knows no bounds. You have no clue when it comes to who you think is posting what, yet you ego post like a big shot thinking you have everything figured out. But like all your posts, in the end, your shown the fool. You are not a “we” you are not a “us” you post like the rest of us, you make the post for yourself, you speak for no one else.

    bluehorseshoe 05.27.09 at 9:55 pm
    “We’ve tried ignoring him, abusing him, etc. I find it best to play with him, and it’s hard to resist. If he’s going to post, then I’m going to at least have fun with the fool. He has trolled us to no end.”

    Really? How desperate, how childish, turning posts around, taking personal shots, and thread crapping? That’s what you think is “fun”? Those pathetic actions make you laugh? Seems such ignorance ignores the reality that your actions show no respect for our host Robb and all the rest who browse and post at RIMarkable.

    It’s well known when something is posted by bluehorseshoe or another of the tiny sad minority comes up in the thread, the whole thread turns into a desperate attempt to stroke fragile ego’s. Sadly for you, but good for the rest is most every one of your posts is shown for the ignorance and childishness that they are by others post’s based on reality and the truth, which follow.

    Please grow up and learn to post like a adult. You have been reminded many, many times before RIMarkable is not for you to post your desperate personal shots and to stroke your fragile ego. Rimarkable is not a place for you to post your opinions of others or what they post. Rimarkable is not a place for you to post your “abuse”, “play” “have fun” and name call of others. The one who’s desperately worried about silly personal issues and a “reputation” is you. Most come here for RIM and BB news, not your crap, and not to be crapped on by you. Grow Up.

  • http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/therock/ The Rock

    The BB system while secure, can be a trade off when it comes to reliability as has been seen throughout the years. Some might need the perceived security before everything else, others might need a system that has a chance of better reliability. Back in 2007 Gartner gave some guidance.

    GartnerResearch
    Publication Date: 23 April 2007 ID Number: G00148271

    For Many, BlackBerry Disruption Points to Need for Strategy
    Ken Dulaney, Donna Scott

    Research In Motion’s recent downtime incident is a reminder that IT services can sometimes falter. Users who need continuous, uninterrupted service should develop a plan that will protect them from future failures.

    http://www.gartner.com/resources/148200/148271/for_many_blackberry_disrupti_148271.pdf

  • nyr2k2

    @bluehorseshoe:

    Over at Hockey’s Future. I usually only post in the Rangers forum, though I’ll occassionally head over to chat on other Atlantic Division boards.

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