Following the government's recent warning, Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) -- the makers of BlackBerry -- assured India that it will soon address security concerns by complying with formats that could be monitored by security and intelligence agencies as and when required.

The Indian government and BlackBerry maker RIM will soon find a way to make security checks possible on its high-end handsets, a home ministry official said on Thursday, downplaying fears of a ban on its email and internet services that are hugely popular in corporate circles.

Special secretary (internal security) in home ministry U K Bansal told reporters on the sidelines of a conference organised by FICCI here that "Makers of BlackBerry have assured the ministry of home affairs that the issue of monitoring will be sorted out soon. I am sure we will soon be on the same page and our concerns will be addressed."

Utthan Kumar Bansal also told reporters that the home ministry had raised national security concerns with RIM over monitoring data services on these handsets and added that a solution may be found soon.

The government has already warned RIM that if it does not comply with the formats that can allow monitoring of emails and SMSes to address security concerns, it will have to close down operations in the country.

BlackBerry's server is based in Canada where the encryption level is very high and extremely difficult to crack. Any message going through the Canadian server is encrypted and, therefore, cannot be accessed by intelligence agencies in India.

BlackBerry and Nokia collectively account for nearly all the corporate email consumers on mobile phones in the country.