Blackberry SWD-20120924140022907 Enforcing secure messaging using classifications

Enforcing secure messaging usingclassifications

You can use message classifications to require S/MIME-enabled users or PGP enabled users to sign, encrypt, or sign and

encrypt email messages that they send from the BlackBerry devices.

You use the Message Classification IT policy rule to configure one or more message classifications that users can apply to

email messages. The message classification that the users select when they compose email messages determines the type

of S/MIME message protection or PGP message protection that applies to the email messages.

If a user does not select a message classification, by default, the BlackBerry device applies the first classification in the

message classification list on the BlackBerry device. You can change the order that the BlackBerry device lists the

classifications in.

The message protection options on the BlackBerry device are limited to the types of encryption and digitial signing that the

highly secure messaging packages on the BlackBerry device permit. When a user applies a message classification to an

email message on a BlackBerry device, the user must select one type of message protection that the message

classification permits, or accept the default type of message protection. If a user selects a message classification that

requires signing, encryption, or signing and encryption of the email message, and the user did not install a highly secure

messaging package on the BlackBerry device, the user cannot send the email message.

1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the BlackBerry solution management menu, expand Policy.

2. Click Manage IT policies.

3. In the list of IT policies, click an IT policy.

4. Click Edit IT policy.

5. On the Security tab, at the bottom of the screen, in the Message Classification Display Name field, type a display

name that you want to appear in the Classifications list on BlackBerry devices.

6. Type a subject suffix that you want to append to the message subject in parentheses . For example, type the subject

suffix (U) for a classification that is named Unclassified.

7. In the Minimum Actions drop-down list, click an action that a BlackBerry device user can perform to encode the

message. For example, to permit users to select all of the encoding types for the secure messaging packages that

they install on their BlackBerry devices, click Signed.

8. Click the Add icon.

9. Click Save all.

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