The mobile security management (MSM) and mobile device management (MDM) markets have become competitive due to increasing enterprise needs for mobile security and device management. Today, virtually every industry is adopting mobility as CIOs are seeing just how critical it is to secure mobile device assets including e-mail, content, applications, data and even hardware.
More and more organizations are providing innovative technologies for their employees and customers, but they also need to make sure they are protecting their investments. When it comes to BYOD, it’s integral that enterprises ensure that the consumer products are being brought onto their network and measure up to corporate security standards.
One global provider of mobile security and Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM), AirWatch (News - Alert), has decided to integrate with Samsung KNOX for enterprise-ready Android deployments. Samsung (News - Alert) KNOX is an end-to-end secure solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through and to the application layer.
"AirWatch has over 20 years of experience in true enterprise mobile solutions, and partnership with AirWatch will bring reassurance and convenience for IT departments looking to implement and manage Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategies,” said Dr. Injong Rhee, senior vice president, B2B R&D Group, Samsung Electronics, in a statement.
The KNOX platform retains complete compatibility with Android and the Google (News - Alert) ecosystem while engineering security and management enhancements, including its application container technology, which enables enterprises to support both BYOD and Corporate-Liable models without compromising corporate security or employee privacy.
According AirWatch President and CEO John Marshall (News - Alert), Samsung KNOX is a significant step in enterprise readiness for Android, allowing businesses and government institutions to adopt new mobile device types with enterprise-grade security into their mobile ecosystems.
Currently, AirWatch implements the most Samsung SAFE features of any EMM provider, and will provide same-day KNOX support, allowing enterprises to create container on the device; enforce container passcode; configure corporate e-mail in the container; set VPN policies at the application level; allow ability to silently add, remove and update apps in the container; enable single sign-on; encrypt by default and; restrict access to container applications and data to the container space.
Marshall continued, "AirWatch delivers the flexibility to implement and manage diverse mobile operating systems and platform iterations through strong OEM integration. Samsung SAFE and KNOX management support provide our customers additional options to protect personal data while ensuring corporate data loss prevention, especially for BYOD programs."
Edited by Allison Boccamazzo