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"BlackBerry has confirmed that it\u2019s bringing Secure Work Space, a software solution that offers professionals a secure way of separating their work and personal data on a mobile device, to iOS and Android.\r\n\r\nClosed beta testing has already begun, although a public release is expected before the third quarter of this year.\r\n\r\nThe multi-platform solution\u00A0will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, which the company revealed would soon be updated to include security for \u201Cdata-at-rest\u201D and \u201Cdata-in-transit\u201D, providing users with a more complete separation of the data needed for their job.\r\n\r\nSecure Work Space currently includes secured client apps for email, calendar, contacts, tasks, memos, secure browsing and document editing for any device covered under BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, which launched in January.\r\n\r\nDavid J Smith, EVP of Enterprise Mobile Computing at BlackBerry, said launching the service on iOS and Android was \u201Ccritical\u201D in a society adopting the bring your own device (BYOD) mentality.\r\n\r\n\u201CEnterprise Service 10 offers administrators a single, intuitive platform enabling them to effectively and securely manage a variety of devices while protecting their corporate assets and at the same time providing employees the flexibility they desire,\u201D he said.\r\nWhy support iOS and Android?\r\nIt\u2019s still all too common to see businessmen walking around with two smartphones. One, quite often a BlackBerry, has been given to them for work while the other, usually running a different mobile OS, has their personal SIM card and data.\r\n\r\nThe ongoing concern for BlackBerry has been that people will eventually ditch the device given to them by their employer once other mobile platforms - iOS and Android in particular - catch up and begin to offer more robust services and productivity tools.\r\n\r\nSecure Work Space exists to try to keep professionals on a BlackBerry device, by offering large businesses a solution so that they can keep their company smartphone for both work and personal use.\r\n\r\nThe solution also means that employers don\u2019t need to configure or manage expensive VPN infrastructures to ensure that mobile devices only have access to data and applications protected by corporate firewalls.\r\n\r\nThe support for iOS and Android shows that BlackBerry has admitted it can no longer pretend that its own mobile OS is presently the dominant choice for employers. By supporting Apple and Google\u2019s mobile platforms, businesses will be able to oversee the applications and data accessed by users across (almost) all types of mobile devices.\r\n\r\nIn the process, BlackBerry makes considerably more money by licensing the technology to additional companies. In other words, everybody wins - except BlackBerry sales, of course.\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0Mario Tama/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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