Comments on: French government bans BlackBerrys, uses them in secret anyway

By: E-mail security company joins ISV Alliance | BlackBerry Cool

E-mail security company joins ISV Alliance | BlackBerry Cool — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:35:00 +0000

[...] has joined the ISV Alliance today, hopefully counteracting some of the bad press following the French incident. Their Izemail client for BlackBerry has only been on the block for under a year, but clearly [...]

By: Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool

Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:16:07 +0000

[...] by all mobile devices, which seems only reasonable. So when RIM says that governments have “given the system their accreditation“, they might be milking it just a little. Permalink Share This Post Comment Print This Post [...]

By: Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool

Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:16:06 +0000

By: Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool

Maybe the French are right | BlackBerry Cool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:16:06 +0000

By: david

david — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:35:34 +0000

It is very common for the very secure RIM solution to be installed but the local administrators do not set the policy controls correctly.

i.e. they often forget to enforce an auto-lock on the handset, or leave the time-out period up to the users (who typically set it to 60 minutes!)

When you do enforce policy correctly users complain – but a secure Blackberry is better than no blackberry!

By: david

david — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:35:00 +0000

It is very common for the very secure RIM solution to be installed but the local administrators do not set the policy controls correctly.

i.e. they often forget to enforce an auto-lock on the handset, or leave the time-out period up to the users (who typically set it to 60 minutes!)

When you do enforce policy correctly users complain – but a secure Blackberry is better than no blackberry!