From the moment you open the box of a Samsung product and turn it on, it is already protected with Samsung Knox. This security platform is the one in charge of ensuring our well-being when browsing with our smartphone or tablet, so that the main potential dangers move away from our radius of action.
At Softonic we delve into this feature, we dissect it and we tell you all the benefits that Samsung Knox can offer you with its additional packages.
How does Samsung Knox work?
This is the most important point of all: how samsung knox works. To be exact, Knox is a combination of a proven security foundation built into Samsung devices with a suite of enterprise solutions that can leverage this proprietary platform, which receives the seal of approval. Secured by Knox.
To give us an idea of the level of implementation, Knox is anchored in the same device chipset during the manufacturing stage. Therefore, it is not “something” that is included in an additional way, but it is thought from the most incipient phase, that which has to do with the creation of the Samsung mobile phone, tablet or portable device.
All Secured by Knox devices have security features that involve multiple layers, both at the hardware and software levels. Also, are always enabledwhich guarantees mechanisms of defense, privacy and security overlays that have one big purpose: protecting data from intrusions, malware, and malicious threats. Everything that might be harmful to the terminal, Knox will identify, treat and eliminate it.
With all this already mentioned, one can ask the following question: but is it in real time or does it simply warn every certain time? The answer is, of course, the first. Knox updates and protects in real time, which prevents any software modification on the device at the same time it is between. It may seem trivial, but it is a very important detail to take into account.
Can Secured by Knox be improved?
We jump to the next important point: how you can improve the Knox features offered by Samsung. Behind these security measures there is a portfolio of solutions that expand the potential offered by this system. Thanks to them, great results can be achieved, especially at the business level.
For example, in this last sense, it can be achieved that the IT administrators of the companies can easily protect, deploy, manage and analyze the mobile devices that the company has. In this way, security is guaranteed at all layers and greater protection is enjoyed in business use.
Secured by Knox offers a large number of products available to the user. Nevertheless, through the “Suite” we can have all the main package, which guarantees us:
- Remote device status
- Government-grade data protection and advanced network security.
- Simple, streamlined setup, with flexible and secure enrollment options.
- Efficient preparation of the devices of the created environment.
- Powerful device management, with advanced software update management and flexible access to all Knox features.
- Intelligent device battery management, detailed information regarding its use and constant monitoring of the entire environment.
Behind all these features are hidden details as interesting as the possibility of create a private and encrypted space on the Galaxy device, which allows us to store private data and applications. Likewise, we can easily control which applications have access to the location and when, even knowing if one wants to access the microphone or camera to spy on us for privacy. oh! And one that we always like: we can choose which applications can show ads, for those websites that are very intrusive.
As a note to also highlight, additionally there is Knox Guard, a fundamental tool to protect us from theft, loss or anything that involves the device in a more physical way. Likewise, it is also Knox Vault, which is like a safe within a safe. This allows us to physically isolate the PINs, passwords and, in general, private information.
solutions for all
Con over 1 billion Samsung devices protected around the world, 70 million terminals managed per day and more than 20,000 companies use our services worldwide, Know not only offers real-time security from the moment you unbox a Samsung terminal, but it can be enhance thanks to the vast offer of products that Secured by Knox has.
The commitment behind this technology is to ensure that the Knox security platform and accompanying Knox suite of solutions have a optimal performance both in the present and in the future, in order to meet the growing needs of all customers who rely on Samsung.