Samsung KNOX Interview - Use your Phone for Work & Play Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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is the platform for Enterprises to feel confident in rolling out Samsung devices
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within their Enterprise it provides on device encryptions support for VPN and
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support for over 300 uh it policies for
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mobile device management so nox is our
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comprehensive Sol mobile solution for work and play within a Samsung device
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and what what KNX enables that safe did is the ability for the Enterprise just
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to manage those core pieces of the Enterprise is interested in the
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applications the data the email and contact from a business perspective
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while leaving all the personal stuff your pictures your social networks and
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games and all the things that you're normally doing on your device when you're not at work alone and outside of
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their realm of influence and control so why do we need this I guess from both
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the perspective of a business and from the perspective of the individual
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consumer so from a Enterprise or a business in terms of rolling out mobile
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devices one of their main concerns is the mixing of corporate data and how do
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they protect their data so it's not out there in in in the wild if you will so
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what KNX provides them is the security uh to manage that data to lock the
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device down to lock down the elements they need to check for mware so a trust
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own Integrity manager to ensure that there's no malware secure rout to
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prevent the device from being rooted and those first level of attacks from taking
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place on the device so it gives them a comprehensive security platform to be
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able to roll out their their devices from a personal perspective one of the
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challenges with BYOD is once I bring my device into the office the office now
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has access to all my personal activities on the device they have access to my
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pictures my social networks all the things that I'm typically doing when I'm
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not at work if I allow the company to manage my device they now can what nox
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does is enable them to manage just the work pieces while leaving all my
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personal stuff for me to use myself so then this is ultimately a solution for
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people who are currently using two devices absolutely the address B market
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we're going after with KNX is that you don't need to have a separate device for
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work and one for play with Samsung's KNX
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solution it is a comprehensive ability to do all the great things on our
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devices we make Innovative devices that have Mass Appeal in the marketplace uh
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you can now take those devices into the work and have all the great things from
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a security uh perspective in order to be able to manage them now we talked about
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this off camera but it's within the nox
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container which basically looks like another Android desktop you can only
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install applications from Samsung's Enterprise approved App Store there's no
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General Google play so um is that going
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to be an issue and how as as a as a user
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how does that how does that hamper me if I can't use say for example um something
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like Dropbox can I use that on the Enterprise side or only on the personal
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side so we're working very hard to ensure that the top Enterprise and
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business focused applications are available ailable within the Samsung app
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store within Samsung KNX uh so right now we have over 200 applications that will
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be available box and Dropbox share file Cisco webx among others are available
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within the Samsung nox solution and what we do to ensure that is we do testing
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and we there's an Integrity manage management capability that needs to be
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in place in order to ensure that there's no malware within the application when
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opened in in in the context of the container on the personal side again
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those applications are well available you can download them from Google play
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Within the container we want to make sure that you have a tight list of applications that meet the security
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requirements of the Enterprise today and if there are applications that they
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don't have that are not in our Samsung app store and they want to deploy
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anyways they're able to do that through their MDM solution or mobile device
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management solution provided they're using AirWatch uh sodi mobile iron or
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absolute software which is a local company here in Vancouver okay well I
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think that pretty much addresses all the questions that I had about nox um you
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know what guys i' uh I'd love for you to click on the description in the video
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and check out the Forum link maybe you can post some more questions there and I
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can forward them to Samsung and see if maybe we can get some answers to them
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because I think the individual viewers are going to be the ones who are most
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affected by by all of this because it's their their places of work that are
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going to be rolling these things out so thanks very much Steve for answering these questions for us and uh hopefully
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the audience is as excited about this as Samsung is well thanks for having me
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it's it's a great opportunity and again I just like to say that you know Samsung
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KNX is a comprehensive solution for work and play and it really does enable you
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to have the confidence to use your device the way you normally would from a personal perspective while giving the
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employe your employer the ability to have the confidence that it is securely
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managed when it comes to their applications and data