Samsung Galaxy S 4 A Review from Mobile Banking angle

            By now, readers must have read plenty of reviews on Samsung Galaxy S 4.

This post will concentrate on the specific features which are excellent from the Mobile Banking Angle.

BYOD (Bring-your-own-device) is becoming the norm across the corporate world. India is no exception. The BYOD trend might be a bit slow in the Public Sector, but it rapidly spreading in the Private Sector.

The BYOD is fast evolving into an important tool to boost office productivity. Though, in the present Avatar, BYODs’ are a CIOs’ nightmare.

Corporate IT Administrators are paranoid about IT Security, and like to have control over the work profile of the IT devices is the corporate IT network.

            Sensing an opportunity here and with experiences with reported security flaws in its Samsung S3, Samsung has focused on BYOD security.

            This has led Samsung to introduce Knox Security in Samsung S4.

            In simple terms, the benefits of Knox Security are:

01) Enable the phone to be divided into two parts one official and another one personal.

02)Enable Corporate IT administrators to control the work profile, like restricting certain Apps, or allowing certain Apps.

03)Enable the user to restrict Corporate IT administrator access to the user’s personal phone space.

04)It offers an encrypted file system, virtual private network and mobile device management support.

05)The software supports file system level encryption, offering protection of business data and applications from data leakage and virus and malware attacks.

06)The system is also compatible with other infrastructure solutions such as mobile device management (MDM) and virtual private networks (VPN).

The Knox Security Product was unveiled by Samsung very recently i.e 25/02/2013, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Within a month the commercial launch also has been made.

The Knox product is part of the Samsung’s SAFE (Samsung For Enterprise) solution.

The Knox Security feature is an exceptionally useful piece of software to allow safe mobile banking transactions.  The phone users should be able to divide the phone space into 3 i.e Workplace, Personal and Financial transactions.  And, if the Knox security product, can keep them secure separately, Samsung has a big winner on its hands.