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.
