Blackberry Announces World's Most Secure Android Smartphone - DTEK50

DTEK50 delivers BlackBerry’s unmatched security, privacy and productivity to price conscious

Consumers and businesses

BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in mobile communications, recently announced that DTEK50TM, the world’s most secure Android smartphone, is now available at ShopBlackBerry.com. DTEK50 is BlackBerry’s second smartphone powered by Android, following the PRIV.

Fully equipped with Android Marshmallow 6.0, DTEK50 combines BlackBerry’s unique security, privacy and productivity with the full Android experience in an alltouch design, at a price point that’s accessible for consumers and ideal for enterprise fleet deployment.

“We take our customers’ privacy seriously. That’s why we’re proud to have all the security and privacy functionality that’s built in our newest Android smartphone. DTEK50 merges the unique security and connectivity features BlackBerry is known for with the rich Android ecosystem,” said Ralph Pini, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Devices, BlackBerry. “DTEK50 adds to BlackBerry’s lineup of secure smartphones, providing choices to our customers with different price points on both BlackBerry 10 and Android platforms.” Android Security at the Forefront

In a recent survey1 of Android smartphone users, BlackBerry found that 50 percent believe their smartphone is only somewhat secure, and what’s more, despite data security fears, one in six Android users don’t know about Android security patches.

“With an increase in cybercrime on smartphones, people need to recognize that the private details of their lives – where they live, their bank info, pictures of their kids – are at risk on their personal device. You wouldn’t leave the doors of your house unlocked at night. Having a smartphone that doesn’t take your privacy seriously is the equivalent,” said David Kleidermacher, Chief Security Officer, BlackBerry. “It’s equally important for businesses to protect their sensitive data from cyberattacks at all points of their mobile environment – from the device to the network and servers.”

DTEK50 was designed to address the security and privacy needs of today’s uncompromising Android users. Smartphones are increasingly being targeted for cyberattacks through tactics like malicious apps, scareware notifications and insecure WiFi connections. BlackBerry’s Android smartphones, including DTEK50 and PRIV, have unique built in hardware security.

DTEK50 encrypts all users’ information, including business critical data and personal data such as pictures, videos and contacts. Malware protection is also built in along with backup,

wipe and restore capabilities.

Additional software provides users with visibility and control over which apps get access to personal info or device features such as the microphone or camera. BlackBerry also delivers security patches on the same day that Google publicly releases information about them, while many popular Android smartphones put the users’ private information at risk of being hacked due to slow security updates.

Features that make DTEK50 the most secure Android smartphone, include:

· Rapid Security Patching: BlackBerry has a record of being the quickest to deliver security patches, setting the bar in incident response and patch management to protect your device from malicious threats.

· DTEK™ by BlackBerry App: Enables users to automatically monitor their OS and apps to know when their privacy could be at risk and to take action to improve it. The DTEK app also tracks applications and notifies you when someone is: taking pictures or videos without your knowledge, turning your microphone on, sending a text message, or accessing your contacts or location.

· Hardware Root of Trust: BlackBerry’s manufacturing process uses a proprietary technique that adds

security from the start, allowing for the tracking, verification and provisioning of DTEK50.

· Secure Boot Process: Starting with the root of trust, each stage of DTEK50’s secure boot chain must first verify that the next component is fully intact before proceeding, ensuring your device has not been tampered with since the last restart.

· Android OS hardening: BlackBerry provides additional security patches, improved random number, address space generation and certificate pinning to make it more difficult for attackers to target a device by scrambling application/system memory.

· FIPS 1402 Compliant Full Disk Encryption: Protects your private information, like pictures or bank information, from being stolen if you were to lose your phone.

Ready to Work

DTEK50 combines the world’s most secure smartphone with BlackBerry’s enterprise management solutions to produce a powerful device capable of powering any work day. Key features include:

· Android™ for Work and Google Play™ for Work: Allows for fast, simple and secure

integration with an enterprise environment as well as easy access to numerous rich business and

ITmanaged apps.

· Full Enterprise Mobility Management Support: DTEK50 supports BlackBerry’s powerful suite

of EMM applications and secure productivity solutions, including: WatchDox by BlackBerry for

secure filesharing, Good Work for businessclass email and collaboration tools, Strong

Authentication by BlackBerry as a VPN solution, SecuSUITE for Enterprise for secure voice and

instant messaging communication, BBM Protected for encrypted messaging and BES12 for secure crossplatform management.

Design Meets Function

DTEK50, BlackBerry’s thinnest device ever, represents the best of BlackBerry with Android to make users more productive and responsive, pairing security with intelligent design. Key features include:

· BlackBerry Intelligent Keyboard: DTEK50 has a smart keyboard designed to learn from users and increase typing accuracy and speed. It provides word suggestions as you type and includes up to three languages, letting you flick them into place for faster conversations.

· BlackBerry Hub: This unified inbox is an irreplaceable tool for consolidating all of your messages in one place – whether it’s email, calendar, social or phone calls.

· Customizable BlackBerry Convenience Key: With the press of a button, the Convenience Key

provides quick access to your most used applications and more.

· Stunning Screen: DTEK50 has a 5.2” full HD display, capable of displaying 16 million colors.

The screen is made of scratchresistant glass and features a specialized oleophobic coating to protect against smudges and fingerprints.

· Expandable Memory: With support for micro SD cards up to 2 TB, DTEK50 provides the flexibility to add affordable and hotswappable memory to download, install, capture and share as your needs evolve.

· Dazzling Camera: DTEK50 is engineered to deliver professional looking photos with an 8MP front facing camera and a 13MP autofocus rear camera. Plus, features like Phase Detection Auto Focus and a dualtone LED flash are designed to help the camera focus instantly and accurately for a blurfree, realistic looking photos, even in low light.

Availability and Pricing

DTEK50 is available to order from ShopBlackBerry.com in the US, Canada, UK, France,

Germany, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands.  DTEK50 will be available in a number of channels around the world, including more than 40 partners from electronics stores, carriers, VARs and distributors. This includes Rogers, Bell, TELUS, WIND, Videotron and SaskTel among others in Canada. In the U.S., DTEK50 will initially be available in Best Buy, B&H and Amazon. Availability of DTEK50 in additional global channels and countries will be announced in the coming weeks.

For more information on DTEK50, go to BlackBerry.com/DTEK50.

Follow all updates related to DTEK50 on the Inside BlackBerry blog here and on our YouTube BlackBerry Channel here.

1 Survey was administered to 8,000 Android smartphone users between 35 and 54 years old in the US by using

Google Consumer Surveys. Responses were collected from April 8 to 13, 2016.

What Is Mobile ROI?

ONE SMALL STEP TO MOBILE ROI

By Nader Henein, Regional Director – Advanced Security Division, BlackBerry

The ability to work from your smartphone, anywhere and anytime, has transformed the way business is conducted. But while most organizations have embraced the ability to be mobile, many are not taking full advantage of the opportunities mobility represents because they do not recognize the real value that going mobile can offer beyond the obvious benefits.

For most businesses and governments in the Middle East the extent of enterprise mobility is reached when they’ve setup an employee’s email account on their smartphone. From a purely commercial perspective, you’ve deployed a mobile device management platform, purchased licenses and in many cases bought a device and a new mobile subscription, so you’ve spent quite a bit to get email on the go. Don’t get me wrong, being able to stay on top of corporate mail while out of the office is critical for employees to be to be productive and efficient, but shouldn’t corporations get more for all that spend?

In short, the answer is yes. Corporations should get a better return for their investment. However, ROI is linked to the mobile maturity of a business. The more advanced a business is in their enterprise mobility strategy, the higher the value and the ROI will be.

The Mobile Maturity graph below outlines the journey for corporations towards truly getting the most out of their mobility spend.

One Small Step Moving beyond basic Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Messaging is a small step with large gains. It sounds as if it should happen organically but there is often a tendency with corporations that after they have deployed a product and it has reached stability, they then leave it alone. That essentially means that have not maximized their ROI.

Maturing from EMM and Messaging to Collaboration involves extending your corporate instant messaging capabilities to mobile devices, whether they’re with CISCO Jabber, Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync) or otherwise. In many cases all this involves is pushing the correct App to your managed devices and configuring user access. Collaboration also involves document sharing. This is a fairly trivial step yet it has huge potential; email is great, but we need access to our corporate documents securely on the move whether they sit in shared network drives, Microsoft SharePoint or the cloud. For example with the multiOS platform BES12, this is a question of a few clicks either via Good Share or WatchDox by BlackBerry.

When you wake up tomorrow morning and reach out to your phone remember how important mobility has become in your day to day life. Then ask yourself – has it brought the same transformation to my work? If the answer is no, then there is substantial room for increased productivity and revenue with just a few clicks.

For more information, visit www.BlackBerry.com.

All About Blackberry's AtHoc Crisis Communication Platform

BLACKBERRY’S ATHOC CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS

Expanded cloud offering empowers European organizations to improve public safety with secure crisis communications in a fully‐compliant, EU‐hosted deployment

BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure mobile communications, announced the availability of BlackBerry’s AtHoc hosted networked crisis communications platform from BlackBerry’s secure data centers in Europe. The new offering will serve European and global customers that plan to support public safety leveraging the BlackBerry AtHoc cloud, which enables people and organizations to exchange critical information in real time during business continuity and life safety operations. In light of recent events, security communication is of paramount importance to both public safety agencies and commercial organizations concerned with the safety of their personnel and community.

With the option to be hosted in Europe, BlackBerry’s AtHoc delivers an offering that is not only in full compliance with regional security but also supports data privacy concerns, including the recent European Court of Justice determination in October, 2015 that a U.S.‐EU Safe Harbor Framework is no longer valid for the transfer of personally identifiable information (PII) from Europe to the U.S.

“AtHoc’s expanded, secure European hosting capabilities offers high reliability and security with a cloud deployment,” said Guy Miasnik, President of BlackBerry’s AtHoc Division. “The solution is in full compliance with European data protection requirements to ensure the world’s most demanding organizations can deliver security, life safety, and business continuity to their community and personnel.”

AtHoc Networked Crisis communications platform enables immediate and effective communication within and across organizations both remotely and on‐site in the case of an incident. AtHoc’s mass notification solution delivers targeted alerts in real time, using multiple channels to potentially thousands of enterprise staff or personnel. AtHoc customers securely connect with a diverse set of endpoints, including mobile devices running iOS and Android, PC and Mac desktops, digital displays, radios, IP phones, sirens, fire panels and speakers to facilitate collaboration and enhance situational awareness.

Featuring world‐class security and high availability, the European data centers will host data for public and private sector companies in Europe. Customer data will be processed within Europe, meeting the requirements for how European organizations handle PII and data privacy. A primary disaster recovery data center in Europe will supplement the new offering.

"We’re committed to working closely with our growing number of European customers to provide them with the secure crisis communications technology they need to communicate and collaborate rapidly in times of crisis,” said Florian Bienvenu, Senior Vice President, EMEA Enterprise Sales at BlackBerry.

With the availability of the European data center, BlackBerry’s AtHoc offers hosting solutions for organizations around the world. In addition to Europe, the BlackBerry AtHoc cloud is available from the company’s secure U.S. data centers, and has been available from BlackBerry’s secure data center in Canada since February, 2016.

For more information, visit www.BlackBerry.com or www.athoc.com

Blackberry PRIV now in South Africa

PRIV Delivers the Best of BlackBerry Privacy and Productivity to the largest App Eco‐system

BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure mobile communications, recently launched PRIV™ by BlackBerry®, the first‐ever BlackBerry smartphone powered by Android in South Africa. PRIV is available in South Africa through MTN, Vodacom and Cell C.

Combining the best of BlackBerry’s productivity, security and privacy features with the wide world of Google Play™ store apps, PRIV is the epitome of form and function. It has been engineered with the world’s finest technology and packaged in an ultra‐thin device – including a dual‐curved screen, touch and physical keyboards, state‐of‐the‐art 18MP camera, and long‐lasting battery – with unique tools that allow users to manage and control their privacy.

A New Standard for the Slider Form Factor.

As part of BlackBerry’s cross‐platform strategy to provide a greater choice of secure solutions to its customers, users will see a seamless merging of key BlackBerry 10 productivity features like the BlackBerry Hub and BlackBerry Calendar into PRIV.

Additional key features include:

 Full Android App and Ecosystem Experience – PRIV brings incredible new features to the Android platform and gives users full access to over one million applications: whether it’s Instagram, Spotify, Uber or BBM®, you’ll find it on Google PlayTM.

 Best of Both Keyboards – offers the freedom to choose between a virtual keyboard or a physical keyboard for speed and accuracy.

 Tough and Beautiful Screen – A stunning 5.4‐inch immersive dual‐curve OLED display offers plenty of room to work or play with rich colors, deep black levels and less power consumption. At a resolution of 2560x1440, it sports an incredible pixel density of 540 PPI – 4x the amount of pixels of a standard HDTV.

Along the screen’s curved edge is the Productivity Tab that provides an “at a glance” view of the most pertinent info from BlackBerry Hub, Calendar, Task, and Contacts.

 Full‐day Battery Life – PRIV has a 3410 mAh battery with enough power to work up to 22.5 straight hours of mixed usage*.

 State‐of‐the‐Art Camera – Engineered to deliver professional looking photos with minimal effort, an 18MP camera, certified by Schneider‐Kreuznach®, integrates technologies commonly found in DSLR cameras.

 Powerful Performance and Expandable Storage – PRIV is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, a premium‐tier chipset designed to offer consumers a superior and compelling user experience along with peace of mind with Qualcomm® SecureMSM™ technology and Qualcomm® Snapdragon StudioAccess™ content protection. Plus, with 32 GB of onboard storage and support for micro SD cards up to 2TB, the new PRIV gives users the flexibility to add affordable and hot‐swappable storage to download, install, capture and share as their needs evolve.

 BlackBerry® Natural Sound ‐ PRIV comes with powerful speakers and a three‐microphone system that delivers a high‐quality listening experience. BlackBerry® Natural Sound Technology is built in to adapt Wi‐Fi and cellular call sound depending upon phone position and background noise, automatically adjusting volume so users don’t have to.

 Android™ for Work – PRIV comes ready for work. Android for Work support allows for fast, simple and secure integration with the enterprise environment. Seamless integration with Google Play for Work enables easy access to IT‐managed apps.

A New Standard for Security and Privacy

PRIV was designed with security at its core, building on BlackBerry’s legacy of security and keeping private its customers’ data. Security highlights include:

 Advanced Privacy Controls: The exclusive DTEK™ by BlackBerry® app for Android™ monitors and reports on application access to the microphone, camera, location and personal information, enabling users to be confident that their personal data is being kept private. Users can know at a glance when their privacy could be at risk so they can take action to improve it.

 Secure Hardware: BlackBerry’s hardware root of trust, a unique manufacturing process, injects

cryptographic keys into the device hardware, providing a secure foundation for the entire platform.

 Verified Boot and Secure Bootchain: Keys have been embedded to verify every layer of the device from hardware to OS to applications in order to make sure they haven’t been tampered with.

Additionally, thousands of modifications were made to harden the Linux kernel with numerous patches and configuration changes to improve security.

 Fully supported on BlackBerry's EMM Solution: PRIV can be integrated with our leading EMM

solution, BES 12, which offers cross‐platform management of PRIV and other devices; providing a full end to end security solution and secure collaboration applications for business users like Secusuite for secure voice and WatchDox for secure file sharing.

While PRIV will provide a choice in operating system to new and existing customers, the company remains committed to the BlackBerry 10 operating system, and will continue to release platform updates focused on security and privacy enhancements.

For more info on PRIV, go to www.BlackBerry.com/PRIV

Follow all updates to PRIV on the Inside BlackBerry blog (blogs.BlackBerry.com).

* Based on mixed usage scenario. Many factors affect battery life, including network connectivity, application usage, feature configuration and battery age. Actual results may vary.