Blackberry Launches More Secure Tablet

Blackberry Ltd on Monday unveiled a new high-security tablet at a tech fair in Germany, introducing a device it hopes will appeal to law firms, governments and companies with highly sensitive electronic data and communications.

Called SecuTablet, it runs on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and comes with a smart card cryptographic processor, according to Secusmart GmbH, a Blackberry subsidiary.

“There are a lot of guys who can make something secure,” Christoph Erdmann, chief technology officer of Secusmart , told me on Monday. “The problem is the security always gets in the user’s way. With SecuTablet, the speed and usability is what you’d expect and want.”

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