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Amazon Web Services and BlackBerry announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data both locally in the vehicle and in the cloud. BlackBerry IVY will support multiple vehicle operating systems and multi-cloud deployments in order to ensure compatibility across vehicle models and brands.
"BlackBerry has always been known for our strong strategy," chief exec John Chen told the BlackBerry Security Summit earlier this week - just as a well-read investment blog concluded that "Without a meaningful shift, this company will probably keep on struggling". This was followed by pulling the sheets off its Unified Endpoint Security Solution for AI-powered Cybersecurity, claiming it "Delivers security and Zero Trust with a zero touch end-user experience through a single console and offers the end-to-end solution with the broadest set of AI-based security capabilities and visibility across mobile, desktop, apps and people."
BlackBerry CEO John Chen and the research director from Gartner's endpoint and operations security group delivered speeches at the opening keynote. Ahead of the event, BlackBerry announced new security products and services including Cyber Suite and BlackBerry Persona Desktop.
BlackBerry has announced a new cybersecurity product that it says is the industry's first AI-powered unified endpoint security system. BlackBerry Cyber Suite consists of four tools that BlackBerry said makes it a preventative security tool, rather than just a detect-and-respond one.
BlackBerry on Monday announced a new open source tool to help security teams reverse engineer malware. Called PE Tree, BlackBerry said the free tool was initially developed for internal use, but the company has now released it as an additional tool for reverse engineers to have in their arsenal.
An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key piece of evidence in one of the state's longest-running drug importation investigations. In April, new technology "Capabilities" allowed authorities to probe the encrypted device.
One of the first announcements at BlackHat USA 2020 is an open-source tool to fight malware that BlackBerry first used internally and is now making available to everyone. At BlackHat USA 2020, BlackBerry announced on Monday that its open-source internal tool PE Tree is now available for all security professionals to use for reverse engineering malware.
BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service delivers the full featured BlackBerry AtHoc system as a service managed and delivered by BlackBerry. BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service can be up and running in 48 hours.
BlackBerry announced on Wednesday that the latest release of its Optics endpoint security product now includes a feature designed to protect Intel-based PCs against cryptomining malware. As a result of the collaboration between the two companies, version 2.5.1100 of BlackBerry's Optics product uses a Context Analysis Engine that leverages CPU data from Intel's Threat Detection Technology to detect and block cryptojacking attempts.
BlackBerry has added a new feature to its endpoint detection and response platform Optics: An Intel-powered cryptojacking malware detection system. BlackBerry claims its cryptojacking EDR has "Virtually no processor impact" on Windows 10 systems that Optics runs on, allowing "Organizations [to] detect and mitigate cryptojacking with greater precision and consistent results across all types of workloads."