![]() Knox works only with selected smartphones and tablets from Samsung, because it integrates directly with the hardware in a way similar to how BlackBerry does for its own smartphones and BES management server. But the company has stuck to the product, quietly unveiling the new Knox 2.4 version this month. (Windows 8.1 is the first version of Microsoft's mobile platform to support device encryption.) Knox aims for corporate-issued Android usersĪnnounced two years ago, Samsung's Knox has had a difficult rollout and now has Google's Android for Work competing with it. But Windows Phone 8.1 devices come with encryption disabled by default, and an admin must enable it. In fact, several new Lollipop devices are not.īy contrast, iOS devices have been encrypted by default (with no disable option) since 2010, and BlackBerry devices have been encrypted for at least a decade - both have the needed crypto chip to avoid performance hits. Of particular concern to IT, Google has quietly backtracked on its promise that new Lollipop devices would be encrypted by default. InfoWorld's sister publication Greenbot found that Google's own Nexus 6 slows to a crawl with encryption on, for example. (Upgraded devices' encryption state is unchanged.) But there's no requirement that the devices use a crypto chip, so users could see major performance hits. Google promised last October that new Android 5.0 Lollipop would enable encryption by default on all new devices. BlackBerry and Windows Phone have small app libraries and a semiporous approach to sandboxing, so malware has not been an issue for them to date - though there have been outbreaks of BlackBerry malware in the past.Īndroid for Work also does not make encryption the default on existing Android devices (many models, especially the cheap ones, lack the horsepower to handle encryption). With Android for Work, IT admins can prevent users from installing unapproved apps from the Play Store in the business workspace to better protect the corporate environment.īy contrast, iOS uses rigid sandboxing to keep apps from accessing other apps, and it severely restricts document sharing to block malware. ![]() ![]() For example, the feds have said that industrial-class spyware used in advanced persistent threats has entered the Google Play market. What Android for Work only partially addresses is the malware problem among Android apps, both due to the high incidence of malware residing in the Google Play Store and to the common file system in Android that lets malware infect apps via data files. Mobile management vendors supporting Android for Work include BlackBerry, Citrix Systems, Google, IBM, MobileIron, SAP, Soti, and VMware AirWatch. Either way, you need a compatible mobile management server to handle the policies applied to apps running in the container, such as enforced VPN use or copy-and-paste restrictions. ![]()
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