Scanning URLs in SMS text messages on

iOS

devices

BlackBerry Protect

allows your organization to leverage the real-time risk assessment capabilities of CylanceINFINITY to warn users of potentially harmful links in SMS text messages on

iOS

devices. To protect user privacy, only messages with URLs are assessed.

When a user receives an SMS text message from an unknown contact that contains a URL, the

BlackBerry UEM Client

or

BlackBerry Work

sends the message to

CylanceINFINITY

in real time.

CylanceINFINITY

uses advanced machine learning capabilities and accumulated knowledge from threat intelligence feeds to provide an instant assessment of the safety of the URL. The

BlackBerry Protect

library that is embedded in the

UEM Client

and

BlackBerry Work

also leverages local machine learning models to identify unsafe URLs. If the

BlackBerry Protect

library cannot use

CylanceINFINITY

for URL scoring, the local machine learning models are used automatically. This ensures a secure browsing experience regardless of the device’s current context or network connectivity.

New incoming text messages from known contacts are automatically considered to be safe and only messages that contain URLs from unknown contacts are scanned and assessed. When an unsafe URL in a text message is detected, the message is filtered to the junk folder.