BlackBerry Could Help Secure Data With 5G Networks, CEO Chen Says By Bloomberg Technology

Well blackberry is known as the company that once dominated and then lost the handheld market, but the company wants to be known as a provider of secure software according to CEO John Chen I spoke to him earlier at the Toronto, Global Forum I, hope, blackberry name means security, I mean something you could trust. You know I think we talk about ourselves, you know Miranda Tax, privacy, church, security of sort, so Witter is, in you know a kitchen device or a health device and or on a handset people. Look at it and say this is a is a trusting device that have you have good, secure software in it and I hope. That's eventually what we will be known for. Do you feel as though the issue of security is that people are as aware of it as they should be, both consumers and governments I think the people are aware? I know your question is how much importance do they put on it? I mean everybody says is important, but I would true security. How important is it to you, I mean or is it know you? You say you know it's kind of used, an iPhone or Android phone or whatever you do believe.

Then you know good, secure, good, it's good enough, basically and I. Think that's the that's! That's the one thing that we have to overcome. They said you know when it comes to the security and privacy, there shouldn't be any compromise whatsoever, and people seem to be comfortable by trading data for convenience, and we need to we educate the world on that. One place where this is a very live file is on the build out of 5g networks. Are we are there time still to make those properly secured, or have we gone too far down a road where there will be gaps in it? Well, if I gee, I, think I say as a transport, couldn't really do everything regarding security and any that I have to from both application and processes, and we're building a lot I mean what we're doing is we're using 5 G's bandwidth capability, and we're putting a security gateway into our code.

There's a lot of pieces for you. How much I mean? How can you focus that attention so that your R&D budget, so that your new innovation hits at the right spot? That is a good, quick reference. That is something that I'm, and the teams are working on very hard. I think that that is the. If I have to look at our number.

One challenge is, like you said they have a number of pieces. Arguably too many of them, and we need to start kind of consolidate- is the wrong word. It's trying to make everything more synergistic so that there is more of a single theme, and you know we picked the enterprise of things it's kind of the market we go after. We pick secure communication, that's kind of the platform we got to build, and now my trick is, you know. Other job now is to bring everything into that platform.

You mentioned partnership with Baidu in China. China is one place where we hear security experts warn about state espionage, about intellectual property theft. Do you worry about? Is there some irony in this company? You want to be synonymous with security partnering with a Chinese company. No, because what we're doing is we will they really the only letting them use our software? We're not Co developing anything with them and they only get the binary, they won't get the color sauce, and we're we're aware of potential problems. Is their government in the world that you would trust to partner with in that way, hopefully Canada a BS nice to think so.

Yes, III think the five I countries we do reasonably well, we do ponder a lot of with you know: Canada US and Australia.

Source : Bloomberg Technology