BlackBerry Cybersecurity

BlackBerry underwent a significant pivot from mobile devices to cybersecurity around 2016. In 2019, BlackBerry acquired Cylance, who designed and engineered the new approach to AI-based threat detection and prevention through predictive analysis. BlackBerry’s cybersecurity solutions now use AI and Machine Learning to identify and prevent cyber threats in real-time, offering endpoint protection and a zero-trust approach to help strengthen security posture and protect critical assets. This shift has allowed BlackBerry to adapt to evolving digital needs, including a growing shortage of skilled resources, while building on our reputation for reliability and security.

Cylance AI is renowned for its cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions, powered by advanced
threat detection and prevention capabilities through artificial intelligence and machine learning since 2014. Cylance is known for its lightweight and efficient design, ensuring it does not cause significant performance issues on protected devices. Instead of relying on traditional signature-based methods, Cylance’s AI technology analyses vast datasets to proactively identify and stop cyber threats in real-time, including zero-day attacks and unknown malware.

CylanceENDPOINT, a BlackBerry solution powered by Cylance AI, stands out in its ability to stop 36% more, 12x faster, with 20x less overhead. Based on a 2023 data lake driven model evaluation, the results are as follows:

• Accelerate test soak – 6 months to ~1 month
• 4x increase in model pipeline velocity
• ~3x decrease in false positive rate
• ~13x decrease in false negative rate
• 40% better efficacy on blocking threats
• 160% better on Emotet threats blocked

Cylance’s exceptional power in effectively blocking threats makes it a highly compelling choice for
organisations aiming to bolster their cybersecurity defences.

Organisations susceptible to cyberattacks, IT outages, natural disasters and public safety incidents that require practical lightweight solutions to prepare for emergencies should invest in critical event management.

• BlackBerry Dynamics provides a cryptographic separation between work and personal spaces to ensure work data can never leak and thus allows true BYOD without MDM.
• The service requires a lower infrastructure footprint, thus lowering your TCO.
• BlackBerry only need a single outbound-initiated port on the firewall. As such it is not ‘open’, whereas others need multiple ports – and in some cases are ‘open’.
• We have the most ISV partnerships (See below link), delivering access to the most critical Enterprise apps.
• UEM is at the front line of Cyber-defence. It includes built-in Endpoint Security capabilities adding to Management.
• BlackBerry supports and improves other strategic vendors’ security environments such as Samsung KNOX and Android Enterprise.