Blackberry 2015 Annual Report Download - page 173

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Q: Where can inadvertent disclosure occur?
A: Public places where others may overhear you include places such as airports and airplanes,
train stations, coee shops, hotel lobbies or while attending conferences or other industry events.
Since there is no way of knowing who may be listening or watching, you must be sensitive to your
environment. Never take any risks that could jeopardize the security of BlackBerry’s confidential
or proprietary information.
A: No. You have no way of confirming whether
anyone is listening to your conversations, and
whether you are compromising confidential
BlackBerry information. You must not discuss
confidential or proprietary information in
such situations, and doing so could result in
discipline, up to termination. Additionally,
while it is acceptable for you to respond to
e-mails on your Company-issued BlackBerry
smartphone, you must be cautious when
Q: I travel frequently for my job. While at the airport awaiting a flight, I check
my e-mail and return phone calls on my pre-released BlackBerry smartphone.
My conversations are usually brief, but sometimes turn to detailed discussions
of confidential BlackBerry protocols. Such in-depth calls are rare, and I believe
that no one is listening to my conversations in the noisy terminal. As long as
I limit the frequency of these calls, is it okay for me to discuss confidential
matters in a public place?
viewing sensitive materials – especially on a
pre-released device. Even though it may seem
that others around us are not paying attention
to your work, you never know who may be
looking or listening. In particular, pre-release
devices not yet available to the public must
always be used with discretion and kept out
of plain view, unless proper authorization
has been received to display it in public for
business purposes.
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