Samsung plans to conquer the workplace with KNOX mobile security suite

Samsung plans to conquer the workplace with KNOX mobile security suite:
Samsung (005930) has set up a very ambitious goal for itself: It wants to become the Android vendor that corporate America can trust. At Mobile World Congress on Monday, Samsung announced it was further bolstering its mobile enterprise credentials by releasing KNOX, a comprehensive package of mobile security services that will be integrated into its SAFE (Samsung for Enterprise) brand. Among KNOX's many features are an application container that works similarly to the BlackBerry (BBRY) Balance feature that separates work application data from personal application data; the ability to implement separate VPNs to individual applications rather than relying on one VPN for the entire device; and a security-enhanced version of Android that's been customized to help IT departments enforce more than 300 IT policies and have access to more than 700 mobile device management APIs.

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