BlackBerry Persona

AI-Driven Continuous Authentication and Behavior Analytics

BlackBerry® Persona uses machine learning (ML) and predictive artificial intelligence (AI) to dynamically adapt security policy based on user location, device type and other factors to protect against human error and well-intentioned workarounds.

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Security that Travels and Adjusts with Your Users

ADAPTIVE ENDPOINT PROTECTION
CONTINUOUS AUTHENTICATION
RISK-AWARE CONTEXTUAL UEM
SEAMLESS END USER EXPERIENCE
DYNAMIC SECURITY AND POLICY POSTURE
USE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Adaptive Endpoint Protection With Predictive AI and Machine Learning

Meet your highest security standards with BlackBerry Persona.

Dynamically adapts a security policy based on user geolocation, device, time, IP address and BlackBerry® Dynamics™ app identifiers.
Decreases risk resulting from lost or stolen devices.
Protects against device and app cloning and user impersonation.

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Adaptive Endpoint Protection With Predictive AI and Machine Learning

Continuous Authentication Without Timeouts

Continuous authentication leverages passive biometrics and other usage-based patterns to unobtrusively verify user identity. Malicious users are automatically blocked from accessing apps when they exhibit anomalous behavior.

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Continuous Authentication Without Timeouts

Contextual UEM for Adaptive Protection

BlackBerry Persona provides a contextual system for Unified Endpoint Management and protection.

Relaxes security policies when an end user is in a trusted location and dynamically adjusts when they travel to a higher-risk location
Adapts device security to local regulatory requirements as an employee travels from one country to another
Quarantines devices and apps before they can be used for malicious purposes

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Network Security With a Seamless End User Experience

BlackBerry Persona creates the best experience for end users while ensuring the best security and compliance posture.

Streamlined access to apps and services without having to re-authenticate when in trusted locations
Adapts security and policy posture to actual context, versus applying only static policies
Enables “zero sign-in” and/or increasing timeouts if a user is in a low-risk pattern in high-trust location

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Network Security With a Seamless End User Experience

Dynamically Adaptive Security and Policy Posture

BlackBerry Persona allows the user experience design and security/policy posture to be mutually and dynamically optimized, versus in conflict.

Determines what level of access should be granted to any device or application at any given moment
Dynamically adapts security requirements for devices and applications without impacting performance
Proactively detects anomalous behavior and prevents potentially malicious activity

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Dynamically Adaptive Security and Policy Posture

Built on Existing Infrastructure

BlackBerry Persona adds a layer of adaptive security to your existing UEM or UEM Cloud domain without introducing an additional software footprint.

Builds on existing investments in BlackBerry UEM, BlackBerry® Dynamics, and BlackBerry® Enterprise Identity
Can work with existing third-party infrastructure, like external IDPs (i.e. Ping, Okta, ADFS) or applications (i.e. Salesforce®, Microsoft® Office 365®)
Allows organizations to extend data, services and models with third-party threat detection systems

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Security that Travels and Adjusts with Your Users

ADAPTIVE ENDPOINT PROTECTION
Adaptive Endpoint Protection With Predictive AI and Machine Learning

Meet your highest security standards with BlackBerry Persona.

Dynamically adapts a security policy based on user geolocation, device, time, IP address and BlackBerry® Dynamics™ app identifiers.

Decreases risk resulting from lost or stolen devices.

Protects against device and app cloning and user impersonation.

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION
CONTINUOUS AUTHENTICATION

Continuous Authentication Without Timeouts

Continuous authentication leverages passive biometrics and other usage-based patterns to unobtrusively verify user identity. Malicious users are automatically blocked from accessing apps when they exhibit anomalous behavior.

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW THE INFOGRAPHIC
RISK-AWARE CONTEXTUAL UEM
Contextual UEM for Adaptive Protection

BlackBerry Persona provides a contextual system for Unified Endpoint Management and protection.

Relaxes security policies when an end user is in a trusted location and dynamically adjusts when they travel to a higher-risk location

Adapts device security to local regulatory requirements as an employee travels from one country to another

Quarantines devices and apps before they can be used for malicious purposes

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION
SEAMLESS END USER EXPERIENCE
Network Security With a Seamless End User Experience

BlackBerry Persona creates the best experience for end users while ensuring the best security and compliance posture.

Streamlined access to apps and services without having to re-authenticate when in trusted locations

Adapts security and policy posture to actual context, versus applying only static policies

Enables “zero sign-in” and/or increasing timeouts if a user is in a low-risk pattern in high-trust location

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION
DYNAMIC SECURITY AND POLICY POSTURE
Dynamically Adaptive Security and Policy Posture

BlackBerry Persona allows the user experience design and security/policy posture to be mutually and dynamically optimized, versus in conflict.

Determines what level of access should be granted to any device or application at any given moment

Dynamically adapts security requirements for devices and applications without impacting performance

Proactively detects anomalous behavior and prevents potentially malicious activity

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION
USE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
Built on Existing Infrastructure

BlackBerry Persona adds a layer of adaptive security to your existing UEM or UEM Cloud domain without introducing an additional software footprint.

Builds on existing investments in BlackBerry UEM, BlackBerry® Dynamics, and BlackBerry® Enterprise Identity

Can work with existing third-party infrastructure, like external IDPs (i.e. Ping, Okta, ADFS) or applications (i.e. Salesforce®, Microsoft® Office 365®)

Allows organizations to extend data, services and models with third-party threat detection systems

READ THE DATA SHEET VIEW PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION

Featured White Paper

ESG Technical Validation of BlackBerry Intelligent Security

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently tested BlackBerry® Intelligent Security (now BlackBerry Persona). Testing focused on ease of deployment, management and simplification of the user experience. Download the white paper for their findings.

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Analytics-Driven Security Using AI

BlackBerry Persona, a part of the BlackBerry Spark® platform, uses analytics-driven security to provide trust within Zero Trust environments. Using AI combined with spatial data, it determines a real-time risk score and adapts security policies for the user to create the best experience and security posture. This includes:

Granting access
Adopting policy
Issuing authentication challenges
Alert and remediations

How it Works

User Location

BlackBerry Persona uses machine learning to identify behavioral and location patterns of multiple users to determine location-based risk. Known work locations can also be preloaded.

Network Trust

BlackBerry Persona determines the frequency of network use and adjusts security dynamically based on profiles. Accessing a public Wi-Fi for the first time, for example, would adjust the risk score accordingly.

User Behavior*

BlackBerry Persona can determine and build a contextual risk score based on learnings of how and when a user normally accesses data, identifying when the user’s behavior seems consistent and trusted (*coming soon).

Device and App DNA*

BlackBerry Persona can determine whether a device and apps are compliant and up-to-date, adjusting security policy based their DNA profiles (*coming soon).

With CylancePERSONA, we have greatly enhanced user experience and productivity without sacrificing security policies.”

Systems Engineer Healthcare Insurer

Adaptive Policy Use Cases

A Manager Enters a Retail Branch…

Anne is the regional manager for a major retail bank. When she enters a retail branch, BlackBerry Persona determines her presence based on her mobile device’s geolocation. Her access to privileged apps appropriate for her role is automatically enabled upon her arrival. When she leaves, that access is disabled.

Hacker Attempts to Access Salesforce App

Sally primarily works from a corporate office. When BlackBerry Persona detects a combination of IP address, location and time that aren’t possible based on information about her last-known use, it denies access and takes remediating action to automate a logout, adds the IP address to a watchlist and alerts BlackBerry UEM of the high-risk event.

Colonel Smith Enters a Restricted Zone

Colonel Smith works at a government military base that has a restricted, high-security zone. Upon entering this zone, Smith’s smartphone’s camera and Bluetooth® connection are disabled and access to certain websites is restricted. When he leaves, his camera and Bluetooth are re-enabled and browser restrictions are disabled.