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sati01 Encryption is based on open standards that have been tested for decades. BlackBerry does transport encryption in the same why that Google, Microsoft, Banks and any other company.
The car can be connected directly to Ford's private cloud through an encrypted channel, there is no reason to go through a middleman like NOC. Microsoft, IBM and other consulting companies make money helping to implement these systems. Cloud providers offer services, ready to use, designed to collect data from IoT devices and send them through encrypted channels to the cloud. There is no reason to pay a third party company like BlackBerry to implement just encryption. There is no value in that.
BlackBerry has to provide an end to end solution and compete with PaaS providers like Azure, AWS and Google. This solution could include hardware, operating system, transport, storage, analytics and apps to consume the data. However, they can't compete in general purpose services and tools because they don't have the scale, so they have to offer canned solutions for particular problems in particular industries, ready to use systems for a fraction of the cost that It would take to do them at home. Although, the big cloud providers are going to develop these verticals too.