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BlackBerry Secure Communications Blog

Securing Communications in an AI-Assisted World
Christine Gadsby spoke with Decipher's Dennis Fischer about cybersecurity’s evolution, mobile communications risks, AI-driven threats, and secure government communications.

Communicating Under Pressure: New Guidance for Service Providers
Earlier this month, six national cybersecurity agencies, including CISA and NCSC-UK, released joint guidance on communicating during service outages. The guidance names accuracy, transparency, and continuous updates as core principles. BlackBerry® Secure Communications supports these standards with end-to-end encryption, sovereign infrastructure, and government-grade certifications that keep crisis coordination confidential and reliable.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act Is Turning Security into a Market Access Requirement
Starting September 11, new EU reporting obligations extend to communications platforms and give procurement teams a concrete set of questions to ask before the next contract renewal.
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Out-of-Band Communications: The Missing Layer in Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Critical infrastructure resilience depends on more than network isolation. Out-of-band communications keep response teams connected when normal systems fail.
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Trust Without Borders: How BSI Certification Reinforces the Global Impact of BlackBerry UEM
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A 90-Day Communications Continuity Plan for Water Utilities
When a water utility isolates its operational technology during a cyberattack, isolation alone does not create resilience. A practical 90-day plan builds three things in sequence: reliable alerting to replace the manual call tree, an out-of-band coordination channel independent of the isolated network, and managed devices for the small group carrying the response.
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Why Secure Communications Remain a Human Problem
New apps come and go, but the core problems remain. Secure government communications ultimately hinge on human behavior.
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The Day It Goes Sideways: One Superintendent, One Shift, One Incident Nobody Declared Yet
Everything the guidance calls a mitigation arrives at the plant as a phone call to somebody who may not pick up.
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When Both of You Are Compromised: Coordination Beyond Your Own Walls
Mutual aid, primacy reporting, and information sharing all rest on the same assumption: that you can reach somebody who is not on your network. A cyber campaign is the case where that assumption fails at both ends at once.
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AI-Assisted Exploitation Reaches the Federal Record
The latest advisory lists seven hardening actions. Completing them is engineering work; proving they were completed is coordination work.
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An Interview with Christine Gadsby on the State of Secure Communications
In conversation with KBI, BlackBerry Chief Security Advisor Christine Gadsby discussed widespread misconceptions around consumer-grade messaging app security.
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Detection Is Not Coordination: What Small Utilities Still Need After Water Watch
Detection is finally reaching the smallest utilities that need it most. Coordinating a response remains a challenge that local operators must solve themselves.
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