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Samsung is expanding Knox as a suite of purpose-built business
tools that go beyond mobile
Samsung Knox, the award winning, defense-grade security
platform, is expanding to offer a suite of purpose-built, innovative
and intuitive business tools designed for the ways people want
to work. The new Samsung Knox is taking the platform beyond
mobile to serve as the foundation for all Samsung enterprise
solutions and services.
“As we move closer each day to a world where all things are
connected, strength of security has never been more important,”
said DJ Koh, President of Mobile Communications Business,
Samsung Electronics. “As a renowned mobile security platform
with notable government certifications, placing Samsung Knox
at the foundation of all solutions and services will deliver the
infrastructure needed to advance Samsung’s commitment to the
enterprise.”
Secure Compatibility with More Devices
An important step in the expansion of Samsung Knox is its
security coverage for Samsung devices from flagship devices
to many mid-tier devices including select smartphones and
tablets. Additionally, Samsung Knox is available on wearable
devices such as the Samsung Gear S2. This means many more
Samsung device owners will be able to benefit with Samsung
Knox’s defense-grade protection.
Platform Expansion to Drive Interoperability
Samsung Knox is designed with multi-platform interoperability to
work with existing IT assets. This commitment to interoperability
will now be extended beyond the Android operating system
to include Samsung’s Tizen operating system. Samsung Knox
also works seamlessly between Internet of Things solutions
with a collection of open APIs and SDKs. In addition, Knox is
supported by over 120 enterprise mobility management (EMM)
providers worldwide, and performs with all popular single sign-
on (SSO) and virtual private network (VPN) solutions to preserve
enterprise legacy IT investments.
Beyond Security, Beyond Mobile
Since its launch in 2013, Samsung Knox has become a trusted
and robust mobile security platform, protecting the device at
every layer from hardware through software to application.
With this next evolution, all Samsung enterprise solutions
and services including healthcare, automotive, finance and
other segments will be built on the Samsung Knox platform.
“Samsung Knox allows us to offer our customers a better way to
manage security and increase productivity,” said Robert Schukai,
Head of Applied Innovation, Thomson Reuters. “By partnering
with Samsung, we can take advantage of a networked world by
empowering people to see connections, use insights and make
decisions when it counts. Samsung Knox is pushing forward our
connected future.”
Samsung Knox Now Leading the Next Evolution of the Enterprise
GXV-T Revs up Research into Nimbler, Faster, Smarter Armored
Ground Vehicles
Eight organizations get the greenlight
to develop potentially groundbreaking
technologies that would make future
fighting vehicles more mobile, effective,
safe and affordable
Today’s ground-based armored fighting
vehicles are better protected than ever,
but face a constantly evolving threat:
weapons increasingly effective at
piercing armor. While adding more armor
has provided incremental increases in
protection, it has also hobbled vehicle
speed and mobility and ballooned
development and deployment costs. To
help reverse this trend, DARPA’s Ground
X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program
recently awarded contracts to eight
organizations.
“We’re exploring a variety of potentially
groundbreaking technologies, all of
which are designed to improve vehicle
mobility, vehicle survivability and crew
safety and performance without piling on
armor,” said Maj. Christopher Orlowski,
DARPA program manager. “DARPA’s
performers for GXV-T are helping defy
the ‘more armor equals better protection’
axiom that has constrained armored
ground vehicle design for the past 100
years, and are paving the way toward
innovative, disruptive vehicles for the
21st Century and beyond.”
DARPA has awarded
contracts for the Ground
X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program to eight
organizations. The program seeks to develop
technologies that would make future armored
fighting vehicles significantly more mobile,
effective, safe and affordable. (DARPA)
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