The BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center has just posted a valuable document entitled "Protecting the BlackBerry device program against malware."
Among several other points, the document (linked below) notes that when a BlackBerry Enterprise Server admin pushes trusted third-party apps to BlackBerry devices, the device is designed to thwart malware attacks in the following ways:
- When trying to download any kind of application, by default the BlackBerry device first downloads a small portion of the application to determine the hash and verify whether the application is permitted on the BlackBerry device.
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrators can set IT policies and application control policies in the BlackBerry Manager to control the manual or automatic installation of third-party applications on BlackBerry devices and third-party application access to their organization's BlackBerry device resources and applications.
- IT or BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrators can also place the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution in multiple network segments by installing each component on a remote computer and then placing each component in its own network segment.
