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BlackBerry 7 Smartphones now certified for Canadian and U.S. Governments

By on February 1, 2012 at 10:22am in Mobile News


Good news for RIM today! They’ve just announced that their BlackBerry 7 Smartphones have followed the BlackBerry PlayBook and been given FIPS 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). The list of certified devices with BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry 7.1 are the Bold 9900, 9930 and 9790, BlackBerry Torch 9850, 9860 and 9810, and BlackBerry Curve™ 9350, 9360, 9370 and 9380.

So what does this mean for the average user? Well, your device is incredibly secure and all those messages that you don’t want anyone to access will be encrypted. For government employees, like heavy user President Barack Obama, this solidifies RIM as a trust worthy partner “to deploy security-conscious mobile solutions”. Full press release after the break.. congrats RIM!

BlackBerry 7 Smartphones Certified for U.S. and Canadian Governments
BlackBerry 7 and 7.1 OS Achieve FIPS 140-2 Certification

WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Feb. 1, 2012) – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced that BlackBerry® smartphones running on the powerful new BlackBerry® 7 and BlackBerry® 7.1 Operating Systems (OS) have been awarded FIPS 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 is recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments and is required under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA).

All BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry 7.1 benefit from this certification, including the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900, 9930 and 9790, BlackBerry® Torch™ 9850, 9860 and 9810, and BlackBerry® Curve™ 9350, 9360, 9370 and 9380.

“The FIPS 140-2 certification for BlackBerry 7.0 and 7.1 illustrates RIM’s continuing commitment to providing industry-leading, secure, mobile computing platforms for our customers,” said Scott Totzke, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Security at Research In Motion. “With all of the latest BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet certified under the FIPS program, government and security-conscious customers can deploy our entire range of products with confidence.”

In addition to FIPS 140-2 certification, the BlackBerry 7 OS has received Common Criteria EAL4+ certification (see announcement – November 14, 2011). The BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet has also received FIPS 140-2 validation (see announcement – July 21, 2011).

Source: BlackBerry

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    Posted by First post is | February 1, 2012, 10:30 am
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  2. Android will never be certified because it is an easy OS to hack and crap on.

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    Posted by SirGoogsALot | February 1, 2012, 10:31 am
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  3. yay!!!!!

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    Posted by chall2k5 | February 1, 2012, 10:40 am
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    Posted by frank | February 1, 2012, 10:45 am
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    • lol is this guy for real!?

      Talk about a Paranoid Schizophrenic!!

      frank, go back to your home and wear a Tin Foil hat! AND DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOME! Get real!!

      Signed,

      A Realist

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      Posted by Chris K | February 1, 2012, 11:09 am

  5. ^^^ good if you are doing something illegal you should be caught!
    Stop being so paranoid.

    Now if only they could fine people who use CAPSLOCK excessively.

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    Posted by Steve | February 1, 2012, 10:54 am
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    Posted by roman129 | February 1, 2012, 11:04 am
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  7. 3 words…buy. RIM. Stock.

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    Posted by mac | February 1, 2012, 11:33 am
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  8. I think there is a lot of speculation about security. First off there is no back door given to countries. BIS data can be monitored to a certain extent, but there is always a requirement for it. ie Carriers and governments cant just snoop without a warrant.

    On all platforms carriers are able to provide certain information to governments and other agencies.

    Where RIM security is top notch is corporate email, the bes server and device create a link. The encryption key can only be used by the server and device and if intercepted doesnt matter because it cant be encoded.

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    Posted by nauman | February 1, 2012, 11:49 am
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  9. This must be a bit delayed… we have been on OS7 came out for the Cnd Govt. I have a work 9900 with a federal department.

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    Posted by Dillion | February 1, 2012, 2:46 pm
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    Posted by BlackBerry 7 devices get American, Canadian Government approval | Tech Geek News.com | February 1, 2012, 3:01 pm
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  11. Think about it. 2 governments give approval for high level security, how many police fire and amublance services
    are theree?

    And the corporate is already huge.

    They need apps and the world is theirs

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    Posted by M | February 1, 2012, 7:18 pm
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  12. If something can be made, it can be broken. Nothing is impenetrable.

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    Posted by Adam | February 1, 2012, 9:28 pm
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    Posted by BlackBerry 7 devices get American, Canadian Government approval | progressIM BE Blog 2 | February 2, 2012, 10:09 am
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  14. BIS data can be monitored, BES can’t .

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    Posted by charles | February 18, 2012, 9:44 am
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