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Waterloo, ON – March 4, 2020 – BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced new enhancements and feature updates to SecuSUITE® for Government and BlackBerry® AtHoc®
that enable government agencies to securely communicate and safeguard
sensitive data, whether it’s engaging in highly confidential mobile
conversations or delivering real-time critical information during times
of crisis.
SecuSUITE for Government 4.0 was recently awarded updated NIAP Certification and listed as a Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC)
compliant product to meet the highest security requirements. The
BlackBerry AtHoc crisis communication system has expanded to include a
new solution called AtHoc® Situation Response, which organizations can
use to plan and securely orchestrate the entire incident response
lifecycle.
“We have a long history of supporting the public sector with secure
and innovative solutions. BlackBerry is trusted by seven of the G7 and
16 of the G20 governments, and more than 70 percent of US Federal
government personnel are protected by BlackBerry AtHoc,” said David
Wiseman, Vice President, Secure Communications at BlackBerry. “In
today’s environment where threats – cyber, physical, or biologic – can
compromise public safety, citizen privacy and national security,
government agencies need solutions they trust implicitly.”
New Security Enhancements to SecuSUITE for Government 4.0
SecuSUITE for Government protects governments against threats to
local and national security by enabling secure voice and messaging
communication on standard iOS® and AndroidTM devices. Mobile
calls are strongly encrypted, and user identities are continuously
authenticated to combat the interception of sensitive communications.
SecuSUITE for Government 4.0 includes extensive new features and
capabilities, such as the addition of new secure group messaging,
enhanced voice quality for crystal clear sound, and enhanced
interoperability with PBX systems for more secured connectivity to
enterprise telephony. It also utilizes the CNSA (Commercial National
Security Algorithm Suite) for protecting up to and including Top Secret
classified data transmission while supporting compliance with Federal
and Presidential Records Acts. In addition to on-premise deployments, it
is available as a FedRAMP High, Impact Level 4, Software as a Service
(SaaS) in the Azure Government cloud through our partner CACI, Inc.
Expansion of BlackBerry AtHoc with Situation Response
BlackBerry® AtHoc is a networked crisis communication system trusted
by over 2,000 organizations globally to unify their crisis
communications. It delivers comprehensive protection for personnel and
provides leaders with the information they need to make critical safety
decisions.
The latest addition to BlackBerry AtHoc is AtHoc® Situation Response,
a centralized crisis management tool to coordinate the entire incident
response lifecycle. Before a crisis, an organization can use BlackBerry
AtHoc Situation Response to create plans, assign reviewers to plans and
send a plan through the review process. During a crisis, emergency
managers can create an incident report based on the previously reviewed
plan. They can also adjust a plan during an incident to respond to
events as they occur. AtHoc Situation Response also allows crisis
managers to use real-time, encrypted chats with the agencies they need
to accelerate emergency response.
Availability
SecuSUITE for Government 4.0 and AtHoc Situation Response are
available today. For more information about SecuSUITE for Government,
please visit https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/secusuite. Additional information about AtHoc Situation Response can be found here: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc/features#situation-response.
To learn more about BlackBerry’s work to secure government agencies around the world, please visit: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/industries/government.
