Secusmart Secures Mobile Communications with SecuSUITE for Enterprise

Secusmart, a division of BlackBerry, has announced that it has released SecuSUITE for Enterprise, an encrypted VoIP calling app.

Even with the criticism from some government officials in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, encryption is a valuable technology for businesses looking to keep their trade secrets out of the wrong hands.

“With SecuSUITE for Enterprise, we are adding a user-friendly and completely independent solution to our portfolio,” Secusmart CEO Hans-Christoph Quelle said. “Thanks to the globally secure BlackBerry infrastructure, governments – and now, companies – around the world can protect themselves from the threat of corporate espionage using flexible and extremely effective encryption technology ‘Made in Germany’.”

SecuSUITE for Enterprise uses 128-bit end-to-end encryption, making it almost impossible for anyone to eavesdrop on phone conversations. It can encrypt both voice and text communications both over cellular and Wi-Fi connections.

The application generates a key that is used for the duration of the call and deleted immediately after the call is completed, functioning as a kind of “one-time pad”, a method of encryption that is theoretically unbreakable.

It will be available next month for Android, BlackBerry 10 and iOS devices.

The move seems to be an acknowledgement that Secusmart’s parent company BlackBerry is no longer the king of enterprise mobile communications with its Android and iOS support. The company even released an Android smartphone, the Priv.

The company is also playing up its historical association with enterprise with its cross-platform enterprise mobility management software. Its BBM messaging app is also available for iOS and Android.

With SecuSUITE for Enterprise, the company can offer secure, encrypted communications even if many of its customers have moved onto iOS and Android devices.

Even before the Paris attacks, there were calls to limit the availability of encryption to people outside of the intelligence or military communities, but the benefits of the technology are undeniable to businesses and ordinary people, and SecuSUITE for Enterprise is evidence that encryption is an essential and mainstream technology.

Edited by Maurice Nagle