If there’s one company that’s gotten a bit of good press from the Sony hacking scandal, it’s BlackBerry.
The beleaguered entertainment company dug up old BlackBerrys to use after Sony’s computers and landlines went down and company e-mail was unusable after a cyber-attack that began last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The emergence of the old devices as a haven for Sony executives has served as a free advertisement of sorts and bolstered BlackBerry chief executive John Chen’s focus on security to win government and business customers.
“It’s proven that BlackBerry devices and the server are a lot more secure than any other solutions out there commercially available,” Chen told CNBC.
He declined to comment on whether Sony would have been protected against the hackers if it had been using BlackBerry’s services because he didn’t know specifics of the attacks.
Data on a BlackBerry is encrypted and secured on the device, and the Waterloo, Ontario, company operates a network of servers on behalf of its clients. Bloomberg News
