If you have purchased a BlackBerry, then one of the items on the agenda is security.

It is crutial that you protect your data!

Below  are a few ways to protect yourself and your device!

1. Device Password

Set up a password on your BlackBerry.

What does that mean?  After so many minutes of inactivity your BlackBerry will automatically lock.  It can be set anywhere from 2 minutes to 1 hour.  We don’t suggest an hour, that is pretty long but 30 minutes or less would be great.  We have to tell you that if you aren’t use to having a password you WILL NOT LIKE IT to start with but in no time you will get use to it and not even remember when you didn’t have one. 

How to setup a password

 

1. Go to Options
   
   
2. Depending on the model of your BlackBerry device go to:
   
   Either: Security Options » General Settings
   Or:      Password
   
   The only settings that you need to concerned with is Security Timeout
   
   
3. Security Time Out   -->  set this to 15 minutes or less
   
   
4. Password  -->  set this to Enabled
   
   
5. At this point, on some models, you may have to hit ESC and Save and it will ask you to enter your password twice.  

TIP: You don’t have to enter and hit unlock, as soon as you see the black screen start typing your password.

2. Memory Card/SD Card

If you have installed a media card Micro SD/Memory Card)  in your BlackBerry you might have also stored some data on it. In most cases your data is not that confidential as on the BlackBerry’s internal memory unless you are using the memory card to store company files! Which people are starting to do!

You can enable the encryption mode for your BlackBerry’s internal SD card to protect the data on the memory card. This activation can be done by going to:

1. Go to Options
   
   
2. Depending on the model of your BlackBerry device go to:
   
   Either: Advanced Options » Media Card
   Or:      Media Card
   
   
3. Go to Security  --> Encryption
   
   
4. Then set this to have to have a password.