BlackBerry Buys Cyber-Security Consultancy; Moves Deeper Into Services

BlackBerry said on Wednesday that it has gained UK-based digital security consultancy Encription, moving the organization more profound into the administrations business as it keeps on transforming into a more programming centered substance in the midst of its continuous turnaround.

The cell phone industry pioneer, which is rotating to concentrate more on security programming and administrations as the prevalence of its gadgets have melted away, said it sees enormous potential in the range, with digital security counseling presently justified regardless of an expected $16.5 billion (generally Rs. 1,13,150 crores) a year comprehensively.

The terms of the Encription bargain, which shut Friday, were not unveiled.

The obtaining will bring a group of around 40 digital security experts, who have tried system vulnerabilities for both government organizations and huge corporate elements, into the BlackBerry fold.

"This is a characteristic augmentation of what we do well now," said James Mackey, BlackBerry's head of corporate advancement. "We're exceptionally amped up for this new offering and we think it is exceedingly integral and a decent expansion to our security portfolio."

The obtaining will give BlackBerry the chance to additionally cross-offer some of its own security items, said Mackey.

BlackBerry said the new counseling administrations and devices, alongside its current security offerings, will offer its customers to recognize the most recent digital security dangers, some assistance with developing relief techniques, and actualize the fundamental IT security measures to safeguard against digital assaults.

The procurement of Encription is the most recent in a string of programming and administrations centered acquisitions made by BlackBerry in the most recent year.

In September, the organization consented to get rival security programming producer Good Technology for $425 million (generally Rs. 2,914 crores). That arrangement came not long after its obtaining of secretly held AtHoc, a supplier of secure, organized emergency interchanges.

BlackBerry is endeavoring to support income from programming and administrations to balance the income decays from its cell phone unit and legacy framework access expenses.

07 Mar 2016