BlackBerry Dynamics

March 2019

Quick Into

• David Fekke
• Swyft Technology, L.L.C.
• Chief Mobile Architect
• Secure Salesforce apps for finance and life sciences

Mobile Threat Vectors

• Web
• Mobile Apps
• IoT Devices

Deploying apps to Enterprise

• Do your users like carrying around two phone?
• MDM (Mobile Device Management)
• BYOD (Bring your own Device)

Current options

• AppConfig
• MobileIron
• Microsoft InTune
• Maas360
• BlackBerry Dynamics

BlackBerry Dynamics

• Supports MDM and BYOD
• Containerized
• FIPS AES256 Encryption
• Jailbreak/root detection
• Secure Socket Tunnel
• No need for per app VPN

Good Technology

• BlackBerry no longer in handset business
• Security Software and RTOS main business
• Good acquired by BB in 2016 
• Good Dynamics renamed
• Fully integrated into BlackBerry UEM

Server Products

• Good Control
• Unified Endpoint Manager (Formally BEMS)
• BlackBerry Proxy

Dynamics API

• Secure File Storage
• Secure HTTP Tunnel
• AppKinetics
• BlackBerry NOC

BlackBerry Apps

• Work (Secure Email and Calendar)
• Access (Secure Web Browser)
• Share (Document sharing)
• Connect (Messaging)

Partner Ecosystem

• BlackBerry supports 3rd party software
• Swyft is an ISV partner with BlackBerry
• Veracode static analysis
• Our apps offered through BlackBerry channel sales

Adding Dynamics to

your apps

• Start new Dynamics app from template
• Add Dynamics to existing code base
• Use Appdome with APKs or IPAs

Custom App Policies

• Assign unique app specific policies and settings
• Can be free text fields, boolean values, checkboxes and drop down lists
• Can set default values
• Should default to most secure option

Implementing

• Just adding Dynamics does not make your app secure!
• Find any place where you write/read to the file system
• Make sure any remote calls use at least TLS 1.2
• Use HTTP APIs to use secure socket tunnel and NOC
• iOS NSHTTPSession
• Android either GDSocket or GDHTTPClient
• A Secure SQLite comes with Dynamics

Entitlement

• Every app needs a Entitlement ID
• Entitlement version, i.e. 1.0.0.0
• Entitlement will be the same across operating systems
• Set in info.plist and settings.json on Android

Language Support

• Cordova iOS/Android
• Objective-C/C/C++/Swift on iOS
• Java/Kotlin on Android 

Demo

Questions

Resources

• https://github.com/davidfekke/blackberrydynamicsexample.git
• https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/apps/blackberry-dynamics

Contact

• David Fekke at gmail dot com
• twitter: @davidfekke
• skype: davidfekke