BlackBerry will provide cyber security tools and services
BlackBerry Announces Acquisition of Encription Limited and creating Professional Cybersecurity Services, a new division dedicated to cybersecurity.
BlackBerry continues to pursue an evolution of the business process, as evidenced by the recent announcement of Professional Cybersecurity Services, a division of BB dedicated to cybersecurity activities. The achievement of this goal has been possible thanks to the acquisition of Encription Limited, a company that has gained considerable experience in the information security industry in the course of his nineteen years of activity, receiving, among other things, by the UK Government Certification the highest safety standards (CESG CHECK UT and ISO/IEC 27001). The financial transaction was door-to-end on 19 February, but the details have not been disclosed.
BlackBerry then creates a structure and acquires key assets to provide tools and consulting services to customers, capitalizing, at the same time, the existing security solutions. Concretely, the Professional Cybersecurity Services will operate in four main areas: strategic security, technical security, Security and Automotive and IoT, most recently, tracking, testing and analysis.
Johan Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry said :
BlackBerry is the reference when it comes to security, and we are always constantly evolving to maintain this high standard since it increases the complexity of the security and the furniture in the enterprise. We realize that security breaches are a high-risk interest equally to public and private organizations. The creation of our Professional Services Cybersecurity and acquiring Encription reinforces our commitment to providing customers the most secure mobility solutions in the industry and helps them to assess and mitigate risks.
A move that appears to BlackBerry undoubtedly sensible in light of the growth prospects of the consulting sector in the area of cybersecurity, a business that today has an estimated value of 16.5 billion dollars and is expected to grow further in the coming years until it reaches a value of 23 billion dollars per year in 2019 (source: Gartner 2015 Worldwide Information Security).
The acceleration data from the BlackBerry services for enterprise security comes after more than two decades in which the company has provided solutions for mobile security that enabled it to achieve more than 70 certifications and government approvals. The new framework on the horizon is the fact that BB, in the future. You will put in a more and more marked as a software and service’s provider, rather than as a manufacturer of smartphones that were bearers of its services.
