Specifically to your problem. Setting up a BES 12 w/o any MDM i believe is free - save your time to build the fucking thing - and resources to put the thing on.
If you want MDM - depending on the level you want - its like $120/handset for a perpetual license or like $60/year. And you can buy it all from the BB Store - and not from a carrier now.
I haven't looked into a BES MDM policies in a *long* time - but when BES 4 and 5 were a thing, they were the absolute "shiznit" if you needed to restrict handsets etc.
Not to mention that from a strict security standpoint, Blackberry was *always* a leader in the field. Very rarely did BB's get hacked (and even when they did, it was stupid shitty BIS ones, not BES ones). RIM used to attend all the fancy hacking conferences and rather than pull an Apple and try and sue clever people into oblivion, they employed them/paid them and secured their shit better.
Famously some criminals in Australia were using Mexican Handsets (because Mexico didn't track IMEI sales very well) with intl. roaming data plans and a BES service to communicate. Frustrated the shit out of law enforcement because the people who own the BES are the only people with the keys to break the encryption.
This whole thing may seem like I have a hard on for Blackberry. I don't. It has such a fucking narrow use case (Execs/Managers/Researchers/etc of Multinationals - where security *actually* matters), their handsets are somehow more fragile/buggy than when they had that stupid ball bullshit and in general i think the whole swipe up and what not rubbish sucks compared to Android/iOS (any of them).
I legit wouldn't set one up unless I had no choice in the matter.
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Date: 2015-02-28 11:51 pm (UTC)If you want MDM - depending on the level you want - its like $120/handset for a perpetual license or like $60/year. And you can buy it all from the BB Store - and not from a carrier now.
I haven't looked into a BES MDM policies in a *long* time - but when BES 4 and 5 were a thing, they were the absolute "shiznit" if you needed to restrict handsets etc.
Not to mention that from a strict security standpoint, Blackberry was *always* a leader in the field. Very rarely did BB's get hacked (and even when they did, it was stupid shitty BIS ones, not BES ones). RIM used to attend all the fancy hacking conferences and rather than pull an Apple and try and sue clever people into oblivion, they employed them/paid them and secured their shit better.
Famously some criminals in Australia were using Mexican Handsets (because Mexico didn't track IMEI sales very well) with intl. roaming data plans and a BES service to communicate. Frustrated the shit out of law enforcement because the people who own the BES are the only people with the keys to break the encryption.
This whole thing may seem like I have a hard on for Blackberry. I don't. It has such a fucking narrow use case (Execs/Managers/Researchers/etc of Multinationals - where security *actually* matters), their handsets are somehow more fragile/buggy than when they had that stupid ball bullshit and in general i think the whole swipe up and what not rubbish sucks compared to Android/iOS (any of them).
I legit wouldn't set one up unless I had no choice in the matter.