Apple and Samsung are in a heated battle for market share in the new mobile computing landscape. While the war is largely being waged on the consumer landscape with Samsung outpacing Apple in product introductions, Samsung is making bold moves in the enterprise space. In January, it announced Samsung For Enterprise (SAFE), which it defined as a set of enterprise solutions that will provide the necessary security and feature enhancements to make mobile solutions suitable for business. SAFE has four components that include corporate email with enhanced Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) features, on-device encryption, VPN and mobile device management support. It’s teamed up with VPN vendors for secure tunnel support and MDM vendors to offer mobile deployment solutions that support more than 388 IT policies. Samsung went one step further at the recent Mobile World Congress trade show when it announced KNOX. Samsung KNOX is an end-to-end secure Android solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through to the application layer. …read more
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