Re: Secure Replacement for BlackBerry Secure PIN Messages

["Jamie A. Stapleton" <jstapleton () COMPUTER-BUSINESS COM>]

Rumor:  http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2031472/blackberry-messenger-coming-android-iphone-devices

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Lewis 
Noles
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:06 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Secure Replacement for BlackBerry Secure PIN Messages

On our campus, there is a desire to begin planning for moving customers from a BES/BlackBerry environment to an 
ActiveSync Device environment with iPhones, Android devices, etc..  However, one of the outstanding issues is finding a 
secure replacement for PIN messaging available on the BlackBerry.

The desire is something that does not require us to host a server for the connection.  There is some discussion of 
using SMS messaging.  However, is it secure enough?

We have done some research and found the following two products:

http://www.gomycell.com/

http://www.tigertext.com/

Before I do a lot testing.  I wanted to see if the consensus is that is a good path to go down.  Or, are there better 
ways to do this?

Thanks,

Lewis Noles
Information Technology Professional
Enterprise Information Technology Services
lnoles () uga edu<mailto:lnoles () uga edu>