SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA
CONFERENCE 2020 -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB;
TSX: BB) today announced the BlackBerry Spark® platform with a new
unified endpoint security (UES) layer which can work with
BlackBerry® unified endpoint management (UEM) to deliver zero trust
security. Leveraging artificial intelligence, machine
learning and automation, BlackBerry Spark now offers improved
cyberthreat prevention and remediation, and provides visibility
across desktop, mobile, server, and IoT (including automotive)
endpoints.
This comprehensive BlackBerry Spark platform benefits the user
with a higher value of security, as well as user experience and
productivities, which simplifies administration, reduces costs, and
eliminates unnecessary friction. These capabilities provide users
with efficient access across resources from any device, at any
time, from any location, over any network, to maintain visibility
and control.
Delivering on Zero Trust Security
The power of the
BlackBerry Spark platform is the ability to understand and define
risks, make contextual decisions based on large amounts of data,
and dynamically apply a set of policy controls to address the risks
while enabling a zero trust environment.
BlackBerry Spark platform offers the broadest set of security
capabilities and visibility covering users, devices, networks,
apps, and data. The platform's six complementary technologies
or pillars are: Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), Endpoint
Detection and Response (EDR), Mobile Threat Defense (MTD),
Continuous Authentication, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Secure
Web Gateway.
These pillars work together seamlessly to share data for
reporting, calculate risk across more domains, and further enable
policy controls. For example, EDR leverages EPP and MTD
technologies to prevent malware across the organization. Continuous
authentication uses data from MTD, EPP and EDR to create behavioral
profiles. And finally, detailed understanding of data from DLP
helps to further define the risks.
"BlackBerry Spark platform is built to enable zero trust
security, focused on earning trust across any endpoint and
continuously validating that trust at every event or transaction,"
said Billy Ho, Executive Vice
President of Enterprise Products at BlackBerry. "By validating user
actions, the BlackBerry Spark platform continuously authenticates
users to deliver a zero touch experience that improves security
with no user interruption. In this way, dynamic trust is maintained
across all devices, networks, data, users, and apps."
In a recently published report1, Gartner said that it
is "seeing the consolidation of MTD offerings with EDR and EPP
tools. This will continue, combining to form a single
solution during the next three to five years. Gartner has dubbed
this combined infrastructure stack 'unified endpoint security.'
Organizations should invest with this consolidation in
mind."
Improving Security While Simplifying Administration
BlackBerry is building the BlackBerry Spark platform to deliver
this comprehensive security approach operating on one agent across
all endpoints and one console for administrators. Threat data
from all endpoints will be combined into one crowd-sourced
repository and managed in one cloud environment.
- One
Agent: Comprehensive endpoint support using a
single agent, for desktop and mobile, IoT (including automotive and
medical devices).
- One Console: Visibility
across the enterprise to deliver security and zero trust with a
zero touch end-user experience across endpoints, users, data, and
networks managed through a single console.
- One Crowd: Leverage a proven AI-ML engine with years and
multiple generations of threat detection and threat modelling that
is continuously learning as your environment changes with new
users, new devices, new applications, and new technologies.
- One Cloud: Instant access
and visibility to high security requirements to enable the global
ecosystem.
This will improve security posture of organizations, while
simplifying administration and rationalizing investment across
multiple security domains and multiple security vendors.
Works with Other UEMs
Enterprises will have the option
of using UEM products other than BlackBerry UEM to connect to the
UES through published APIs made available and maintained by the UEM
vendors. This allows enterprises to preserve their existing
infrastructure investment while gaining the benefits from
UES.
Open Ecosystem
Enterprise and ISV developers can
leverage the BlackBerry Spark SDK to easily incorporate security
features into their applications.
Availability
The BlackBerry Spark platform currently
ships with Continuous Authentication, EPP, EDR, and MTD. The
company will be announcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Secure
Web Gateway in a future announcement.
For more information on BlackBerry Spark, please visit:
www.blackberry.com/spark.
1 Gartner, Predicts 2020: Mobile and Endpoint
Technologies, 3 Feb. 2020
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB)
provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises
and governments around the world. The company secures more
than 500M endpoints including
150M cars on the road today.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the
company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative
solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy
solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security
management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's
vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow
@BlackBerry.
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