BlackBerry Secures Work Space for iPhone and Android

BlackBerry designed Secure Work Space to manage security for enterprise. It is now offering Secure Workspace for iOS and Android.

Secure Work Space offers a BYOD mobile security solution. On a personal iOS or Android device, users with Secure Work Space have the ability to use integrated email (with attachment viewing), calendar and contacts for productivity, as well as secure browser access to intranets and document editing capabilities with BlackBerry’s Documents To Go. With corporate data separated and controlled within the Secure Work Space container, these standard apps can be deployed  to any user along with other apps chosen by the company.

BlackBerry is working BlackBerry Enterpriseclosely with app partners such as Box to power business collaboration in the cloud.

The Secure Work Space solution also enables customers to save considerable effort, administration and expense as they no longer need to configure and manage expensive VPN infrastructures to provide mobile device access to data and apps that reside behind their corporate firewalls.

Since launching in January 2013, 18,000 BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 servers have been installed by customers around the world and Secure Work Space for iOS and Android has been trialed globally with BlackBerry customers since the launch.

According to Forrester Research, Inc., in 2016, 350 million employees will use smartphones and 200 million will bring their own devices to the workplace.

BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, is touted to be the unified device management and security platform for corporate and personal-owned BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, iOS and Android devices.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 server software is free to download. Annual client access licenses (CALs) for Secure Work Space are $99 (MSRP) per year per device. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 is also available as a sixty (60) day free trial bundle that includes 50 EMM Corporate CALs (providing device management for BlackBerry 10, iOS, and Android devices) and 50 Secure Work Space CALs (for iOS and Android). The free trial can be downloaded here.

 

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