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BlackBerry Secure Communications Are BSI-Certified
BSI-validated secure communications for government, defense and critical infrastructure.
Apr 14, 2026
·Blog
·Christine Gadsby
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Cyber threats don’t just steal data — they erode national resilience, jeopardize public safety, and compromise the continuity of critical services. When adversaries gain access to sensitive communications, they gain the leverage to disrupt operations, manipulate decision-making, and undermine strategic objectives. In this environment, securing communication channels isn’t optional; it’s a mission requirement — and it demands security that is independently validated, not merely claimed.
The missions that matter most leave no room for uncertainty. Communication integrity cannot be delegated; it must be engineered, governed, and defended with accountable assurance. Modern espionage operations have recently and repeatedly shown that global networks can be penetrated quietly, patiently, and without detection - often by exploiting the weakest link: trusted messaging. Consumer tools and borrowed infrastructure carry that risk into every conversation, across every device, and across jurisdictions that are out of your control.
BlackBerry provides a sovereign communication platform built for the most sensitive environments. This post covers how BlackBerry® UEM and BlackBerry® SecuSUITE® meet BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) certification or approval requirements, what that evaluation means, and what validated solutions mean for operational control.
What the BSI Certification Means
Government agencies, defense organizations, and critical infrastructure operators face a single, non-negotiable question: does this technology actually do what it claims, securely? BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, exists to answer that question independently.
The BSI Security Certification evaluates security software products against rigorous technical evaluations and defined security standards. Organizations relying on these systems don’t need to rely on the vendors promise of security – The certification exists for these reasons:
Verified trust over assumed trust. Replaces a vendor’s promise that ‘the security work has been done' with an independent technical verdict, examined and documented by a national authority with no commercial interest in the outcome.
Baseline standards. Government agencies, defense organizations, and critical infrastructure operators require a common, enforceable standard. BSI certification provides an exceptionally high benchmark.
Accountability in procurement. For public institutions and regulated industries, certification creates a defensible basis for procurement. If a system is BSI-certified, the security case has been made and documented.
Adversarial resilience. The BSI Security Certification ensures that tools protecting sensitive communications have been stress-tested against known, state-level threat models.
How the BSI Certification and Common Criteria Connect
Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) is the international framework for evaluating IT product security. It defines what a product must do securely and how that claim is independently verified. It sets the rules. The German BSI is one of the most respected authorities that enforces them.
As Germany’s national cybersecurity body, BSI operates within Common Criteria as both an accreditation authority and a certification body. It accredits independent evaluation laboratories, supervises testing, and issues the final certificate. In most cases, a BSI certification is a Common Criteria certificate held to German standards of rigor.
What distinguishes the BSI and its efforts within that framework is the additional security scrutiny it brings above and beyond those controls. Germany has historically required higher assurance levels and more stringent evaluation standards than the framework’s minimum. A German BSI-issued certificate signals that a product has been pressure-tested far above and beyond a normal security audit and not merely run through a check-box exercise.
That certification also travels. Under the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA), the German BSI-issued certificates are recognized by dozens of nations, including the US, UK, France, Canada, and Australia, without re-evaluation. One rigorous process. Global validity.
Common Criteria provides the standard. The German BSI provides the assurance that the standard has not just been met, but far exceeded.
BlackBerry UEM: The BSI-Certified Endpoint Management
When the BSI certified BlackBerry UEM for mobile device management, the solution delivered verifiable security controls across the full lifecycle of mobile endpoints. Specifically, it delivers:
Remote provisioning, security monitoring, and compliance enforcement. Administrators maintain complete oversight of every managed device, from initial deployment through ongoing operation.
Secure application and data access. Sensitive information remains protected at the endpoint across iOS® and Samsung Knox® devices, regardless of platform.
Certificate and cryptographic identity management. Device and user authentication is controlled precisely; cryptographic credentials are issued, managed, and revoked with integrity.
Device hardening. Endpoint configurations are locked to the security posture established at deployment and cannot be undermined in the field.
Operational Benefits
BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM is a secured operational foundation, not just a technical milestone. The BSI security certification translates into concrete organizational advantages:
Compliance burdens are reduced. Organizations subject to national security requirements, critical infrastructure mandates, or data protection obligations can point to BSI certification as documented proof that their mobile endpoint management meets a rigorous, externally validated standard.
Risk is measurably reduced. Every unverified system is an unknown. The BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM removes that uncertainty. Its security properties have been examined, tested, and confirmed by an authority with no stake in the outcome.
Trust extends across borders. Through the CCRA, a single certified deployment is recognized by allied nations and international partners without re-evaluation.
Operational confidence, not just compliance. The people responsible for securing critical communications can operate with a level of assurance that no vendor claim can replicate. The standards have been met. The systems can be trusted.
BlackBerry SecuSUITE: BSI-Approved for Classified Communications
When the BSI approved BlackBerry SecuSUITE for classified communications, the solution demonstrated something consumer-grade applications cannot: end-to-end security built from the ground up. Specifically, it delivers:
End-to-end encrypted voice, messaging, and file transfer. Communications remain protected in transit and at rest, with no accessible interception point.
Continuous identity verification at every access attempt. The assumption that a previously trusted user remains trusted is eliminated. Unauthorized access is blocked even after initial acceptance.
Encrypted metadata, inaccessible to external observers. The gap consumer applications routinely leave open is closed. Message content may be protected by a consumer platform, but patterns, participants, and timing are not. BlackBerry SecuSUITE encrypts all of it.
Beyond Consumer-Grade: What the Difference Means
Consumer messaging applications were built for convenience. BlackBerry SecuSUITE was built to protect against adversaries. While consumer messaging apps fall short when it comes to identity verification — if they do it at all — BlackBerry SecuSUITE enforces verification at every session. Where a consumer platform exposes metadata to interception or analysis, BlackBerry SecuSUITE encrypts it. Where a loosely governed system leaves a foothold for unauthorized actors, BlackBerry SecuSUITE closes it, every time, without exception.
For organizations operating in classified or sensitive environments or for those that have the need for confidential conversations, that distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a system that feels secure and one that has been proven to be.
A Complete Defense: BlackBerry UEM and BlackBerry SecuSUITE Together
Securing critical communications is not a single problem. Endpoint management and encrypted communications address distinct attack surfaces; leaving either unprotected undermines both.
Encryption in transit means nothing if the sending device has been compromised. Device hardening means nothing if the application carrying the communication leaks metadata or fails to verify identity. True communication integrity requires both layers working together: a hardened endpoint running a certified secure communications platform, each reinforcing the other.
BlackBerry UEM enforces strict device policies, controls provisioning, and ensures every endpoint meets a defined security baseline. BlackBerry SecuSUITE ensures every communication leaving that endpoint is encrypted end-to-end, identity-verified at every session, and invisible to adversarial observation. Together, they close the gaps a single-layer approach cannot.
In practice, organizations gain what no individual tool can provide: defense-in-depth at scale. Validated identity protection across every user and device. Real-time situational awareness across the environment. Assured coordination that holds during a crisis or active cyberattack, precisely when communication integrity matters most.
Secure the Mission
Uncertified tools and externally managed infrastructure introduce risk that no operational procedure can fully mitigate. The only defensible position is built on independently verified, sovereign, end-to-end secure communications: owned, controlled, and validated at every layer.
Internationally recognized BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM and BSI-approved BlackBerry SecuSUITE provide exactly that foundation. Not a promise of security. Proof of it.
BlackBerry Secure Communications Are BSI-Certified
BSI-validated secure communications for government, defense and critical infrastructure.
Apr 14, 2026
·Blog
·Christine Gadsby
Cyber threats don’t just steal data — they erode national resilience, jeopardize public safety, and compromise the continuity of critical services. When adversaries gain access to sensitive communications, they gain the leverage to disrupt operations, manipulate decision-making, and undermine strategic objectives. In this environment, securing communication channels isn’t optional; it’s a mission requirement — and it demands security that is independently validated, not merely claimed.
The missions that matter most leave no room for uncertainty. Communication integrity cannot be delegated; it must be engineered, governed, and defended with accountable assurance. Modern espionage operations have recently and repeatedly shown that global networks can be penetrated quietly, patiently, and without detection - often by exploiting the weakest link: trusted messaging. Consumer tools and borrowed infrastructure carry that risk into every conversation, across every device, and across jurisdictions that are out of your control.
BlackBerry provides a sovereign communication platform built for the most sensitive environments. This post covers how BlackBerry® UEM and BlackBerry® SecuSUITE® meet BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) certification or approval requirements, what that evaluation means, and what validated solutions mean for operational control.
What the BSI Certification Means
Government agencies, defense organizations, and critical infrastructure operators face a single, non-negotiable question: does this technology actually do what it claims, securely? BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, exists to answer that question independently.
The BSI Security Certification evaluates security software products against rigorous technical evaluations and defined security standards. Organizations relying on these systems don’t need to rely on the vendors promise of security – The certification exists for these reasons:
Verified trust over assumed trust. Replaces a vendor’s promise that ‘the security work has been done' with an independent technical verdict, examined and documented by a national authority with no commercial interest in the outcome.
Baseline standards. Government agencies, defense organizations, and critical infrastructure operators require a common, enforceable standard. BSI certification provides an exceptionally high benchmark.
Accountability in procurement. For public institutions and regulated industries, certification creates a defensible basis for procurement. If a system is BSI-certified, the security case has been made and documented.
Adversarial resilience. The BSI Security Certification ensures that tools protecting sensitive communications have been stress-tested against known, state-level threat models.
How the BSI Certification and Common Criteria Connect
Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) is the international framework for evaluating IT product security. It defines what a product must do securely and how that claim is independently verified. It sets the rules. The German BSI is one of the most respected authorities that enforces them.
As Germany’s national cybersecurity body, BSI operates within Common Criteria as both an accreditation authority and a certification body. It accredits independent evaluation laboratories, supervises testing, and issues the final certificate. In most cases, a BSI certification is a Common Criteria certificate held to German standards of rigor.
What distinguishes the BSI and its efforts within that framework is the additional security scrutiny it brings above and beyond those controls. Germany has historically required higher assurance levels and more stringent evaluation standards than the framework’s minimum. A German BSI-issued certificate signals that a product has been pressure-tested far above and beyond a normal security audit and not merely run through a check-box exercise.
That certification also travels. Under the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA), the German BSI-issued certificates are recognized by dozens of nations, including the US, UK, France, Canada, and Australia, without re-evaluation. One rigorous process. Global validity.
Common Criteria provides the standard. The German BSI provides the assurance that the standard has not just been met, but far exceeded.
BlackBerry UEM: The BSI-Certified Endpoint Management
When the BSI certified BlackBerry UEM for mobile device management, the solution delivered verifiable security controls across the full lifecycle of mobile endpoints. Specifically, it delivers:
Remote provisioning, security monitoring, and compliance enforcement. Administrators maintain complete oversight of every managed device, from initial deployment through ongoing operation.
Secure application and data access. Sensitive information remains protected at the endpoint across iOS® and Samsung Knox® devices, regardless of platform.
Certificate and cryptographic identity management. Device and user authentication is controlled precisely; cryptographic credentials are issued, managed, and revoked with integrity.
Device hardening. Endpoint configurations are locked to the security posture established at deployment and cannot be undermined in the field.
Operational Benefits
BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM is a secured operational foundation, not just a technical milestone. The BSI security certification translates into concrete organizational advantages:
Compliance burdens are reduced. Organizations subject to national security requirements, critical infrastructure mandates, or data protection obligations can point to BSI certification as documented proof that their mobile endpoint management meets a rigorous, externally validated standard.
Risk is measurably reduced. Every unverified system is an unknown. The BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM removes that uncertainty. Its security properties have been examined, tested, and confirmed by an authority with no stake in the outcome.
Trust extends across borders. Through the CCRA, a single certified deployment is recognized by allied nations and international partners without re-evaluation.
Operational confidence, not just compliance. The people responsible for securing critical communications can operate with a level of assurance that no vendor claim can replicate. The standards have been met. The systems can be trusted.
BlackBerry SecuSUITE: BSI-Approved for Classified Communications
When the BSI approved BlackBerry SecuSUITE for classified communications, the solution demonstrated something consumer-grade applications cannot: end-to-end security built from the ground up. Specifically, it delivers:
End-to-end encrypted voice, messaging, and file transfer. Communications remain protected in transit and at rest, with no accessible interception point.
Continuous identity verification at every access attempt. The assumption that a previously trusted user remains trusted is eliminated. Unauthorized access is blocked even after initial acceptance.
Encrypted metadata, inaccessible to external observers. The gap consumer applications routinely leave open is closed. Message content may be protected by a consumer platform, but patterns, participants, and timing are not. BlackBerry SecuSUITE encrypts all of it.
Beyond Consumer-Grade: What the Difference Means
Consumer messaging applications were built for convenience. BlackBerry SecuSUITE was built to protect against adversaries. While consumer messaging apps fall short when it comes to identity verification — if they do it at all — BlackBerry SecuSUITE enforces verification at every session. Where a consumer platform exposes metadata to interception or analysis, BlackBerry SecuSUITE encrypts it. Where a loosely governed system leaves a foothold for unauthorized actors, BlackBerry SecuSUITE closes it, every time, without exception.
For organizations operating in classified or sensitive environments or for those that have the need for confidential conversations, that distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a system that feels secure and one that has been proven to be.
A Complete Defense: BlackBerry UEM and BlackBerry SecuSUITE Together
Securing critical communications is not a single problem. Endpoint management and encrypted communications address distinct attack surfaces; leaving either unprotected undermines both.
Encryption in transit means nothing if the sending device has been compromised. Device hardening means nothing if the application carrying the communication leaks metadata or fails to verify identity. True communication integrity requires both layers working together: a hardened endpoint running a certified secure communications platform, each reinforcing the other.
BlackBerry UEM enforces strict device policies, controls provisioning, and ensures every endpoint meets a defined security baseline. BlackBerry SecuSUITE ensures every communication leaving that endpoint is encrypted end-to-end, identity-verified at every session, and invisible to adversarial observation. Together, they close the gaps a single-layer approach cannot.
In practice, organizations gain what no individual tool can provide: defense-in-depth at scale. Validated identity protection across every user and device. Real-time situational awareness across the environment. Assured coordination that holds during a crisis or active cyberattack, precisely when communication integrity matters most.
Secure the Mission
Uncertified tools and externally managed infrastructure introduce risk that no operational procedure can fully mitigate. The only defensible position is built on independently verified, sovereign, end-to-end secure communications: owned, controlled, and validated at every layer.
Internationally recognized BSI-certified BlackBerry UEM and BSI-approved BlackBerry SecuSUITE provide exactly that foundation. Not a promise of security. Proof of it.