mobilesecurity.com [London, UK] Blackberry may have previously been the preferred smartphone manufacturer for members of the US government, but recent reports suggest that future federal use of smartphones will expand to include both iPhone and Android devices.
Blackberry was awarded the FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification for its new line of Blackberry 10 devices. That certification, implying the highest levels of data security, came about in November 2012, even before the devices were launched. But the United States Department of Defense is now apparently looking towards a more “platform agnostic” approach to mobile device use.
One of the goals is to open its networks to devices from Apple and manufacturers of Android devices by February 2014, and the move would suggest greater faith in the security developments of the two biggest mobile platforms, Android and iOS.
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