Samsung Knox As A Security Platform Is Being Used By 29 Countries Worldwide

Samsung Knox, an enterprise solution platform, has been the core of most of the Samsung smartphones, tablets and wearables providing chipset level security integration thus making them more secure and reliable. The same Knox platform is being used by various governments and their agencies to secure and manage their policies. Sukesh Jain, Vice-president, IT & Mobile Enterprises Business at Samsung India, highlighted various use cases of Knox with Haider Ali Khan as how it can help enterprises to build a more secure way to manage their businesses. Excerpts...

What is the role of Samsung Enterprises Business and how Knox has been a catalyst for the same?

In the enterprise business space Samsung has been doing lot of innovations in three to four years, not only in terms of providing services and solutions but also developing its own platform to enable the enterprises of small and medium businesses and support their digital journey.

We are probably the only OEM who has a dedicated enterprises team which is responsible for driving solutions and services across business spectrum from small to large organizations. We have set up technical solution team as an organization because we believe that a lot of these organizations need solutions. We have 5 r&D facilities in India. We are working with software developers or end IT team of the particular organization to help them get their applications working on devices as best.

We have SeaP program for the software developers to get their applications best on Samsung devices. We have best in-class service network which put together was where we were able to offer the best service and solutions to the enterprises.

How is Samsung Knox different from Blockchain?

The biggest issue for an IT department is security. That’s where Knox brings in probably the best-in-class security environment. Samsung Knox gives you security at hardware level, middleware level and at an OS level as well. Knox is the only security software which works at a chipset level. all others primarily work at an OS level. Knox as a platform is accepted by 29 countries worldwide.