Blackberry has become the number one device used by business professionals around the world. Commerce has shifted to the virtual domain allowing business men and women to share communications and documents from their beach house in Puerto Vallarta to the boardroom in an LA sky rise. With the amazing power of the Blackberry government officials share strategies and information, businesses forward contracts, celebrities communicate with their contacts, and high net worth individuals tend to their investments.
Unfortunately, this creates a tremendous opportunity for information to fall into the wrong hands. Hackers have become proficient in intercepting data, planting viruses, and reading messages. What can you do to protect your blackberry?
Enabling security functions on the device is the first step in making sure your information is secure. Under message options one may encrypt messages sent and received to the device with a basic level of encryption. However, do not be deceived, any proficient hacker easily overcomes this basic level of encryption. Additionally, messages can be viewed in most cases by customer representatives and employees of the host carrier or server.
Use e-mails instead of SMS or text messages. Any text message sent or received are stored and viewable by the host carrier. No encryption is provided for this type of messaging.
Blackberry devices use a unique PIN (Personal Identification Number). Message sent between two blackberry devices are encrypted with a public encryption key. This public encryption key is readily available and with it, all messages can be viewed while passing through a public routing system.
Use an offshore server. Offshore servers protect your data the same way an online casino protects its rights to do business. At this level, data is unreachable by individuals, corporations, litigation, and even authorities. While most data breaches occur at some level through the server exchange, this is your best protection against data theft. However, be sure your offshore server is not able to access your e-mail itself, or the entire service is useless.
These tips should help you improve your level of security when using your blackberry device and allow you to rest assure that no matter how sensitive the information you are e-mailing is: you are protected.
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Jesse Sherer is the president of La Verne Wireless - Los Angeles' premier agent for the datalocking company. For more information about how to protect your data please go to [http://datalockingla.com] Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jesse_Sherer |