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Originally Posted by Barnes
I hear you about the device encryption but it's kinda like BB's are totally secure until you actually use it for anything, then it's like any other phone. What's the point of maintaing this massive infrastructure of servers?
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Well, its secure enough to meet the needs of most businesses, unless your business is terror or narcotics, in which case governments have reason to look at your email.
But it all goes out the window once you send or receive an email from a Blackberry to someone outside your organization, since that travels good old unauthenticated SMTP. How I wish some major player in the industry would put their foot down and only support mutual TLS for common email carriage...then all email transmissions would be 1024 or 2048 bit encrypted (just like blackberry email, ironically).
That being said, my company is SAS70 and PCI certified, and I guess iPhone’s are sufficiently secure to meet those requirements, since they are allowing us to use them. ActiveSync is encrypted, and the phone’s contents are marginally encrypted.