By: iPadfanzz staff on February 26, 2013
In hopes to attract more enterprise customers, Samsung has unveiled a new containerised security system called Knox for some of its Android-powered Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung Knox is a new end-to-end secure solution made to provide security “hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.”
Knox allows IT admins to keep staff’s personal and work data separate by operating at the application layer level. This, the company said, will help mitigate the threat of data leakage, viruses and malware attacks.
The system, which incorporates an enhanced security version of Android developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), also supports integrity management services on a hardware and Android OS level. It will also play nicely with existing MDM, VPN and directory services, Samsung added.
"Easily accessible via an icon on the home screen, the Knox container offers a variety of enterprise applications in a secure environment, including email, browser, contacts, calendars, file sharing, collaboration, CRM and business intelligence applications," Samsung said in a statement.
Knox will be available on selected Samsung Galaxy devices in the UK "later this year", according to the company.
In hopes to attract more enterprise customers, Samsung has unveiled a new containerised security system called Knox for some of its Android-powered Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung Knox is a new end-to-end secure solution made to provide security “hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.”
Knox allows IT admins to keep staff’s personal and work data separate by operating at the application layer level. This, the company said, will help mitigate the threat of data leakage, viruses and malware attacks.
The system, which incorporates an enhanced security version of Android developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), also supports integrity management services on a hardware and Android OS level. It will also play nicely with existing MDM, VPN and directory services, Samsung added.
"Easily accessible via an icon on the home screen, the Knox container offers a variety of enterprise applications in a secure environment, including email, browser, contacts, calendars, file sharing, collaboration, CRM and business intelligence applications," Samsung said in a statement.
Knox will be available on selected Samsung Galaxy devices in the UK "later this year", according to the company.
