Securing our Blackberries

New Massachusetts Data Protection regulations require us to secure mobile devices.

At BIDMC, we have nearly a 1000 Blackberries and hundreds of iPhones. The Blackberry has well developed enterprise control features, so we're starting our mobile security effort with them.

In the interest of sharing our experience with the IT Community, you'll find our proposed policies here. It's a work in progress and we're still fine tuning our approach. To better under the impact on users, several IT staff including me will be testing these new settings.

There are an amazing array of settings to secure Blackberries - you'll find the complete configuration guide here.

It's clear that organizations are finding the balance between security and ease of use to be challenging. Here's a few describing others experiences:

Timeout issues

Password Policy issues

I'll let you know how our IT pilot goes and publish our final policies/settings as we rollout to our users.