BlackBerry introduces security offering for IoT devices

MORE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH: BlackBerry said the fail-then-patch approach to managing security risk has become a widely accepted practise, but through CHACE it plans to develop tools and techniques that deliver a far higher level of protection than is currently available.

TORONTO: BlackBerry Ltd said it is launching a new certificate service that will help bring the security level it offers on smartphones to a slew of devices from cars to smart meters. 

Certicom, a subsidiary of BlackBerry and an industry pioneer in elliptic curve cryptography, announced a new offering that it contends will secure millions of devices, expected to be part of the growing Internet of Things (IoT) sphere.