Samsung has teamed up with Zscaler to launch a cloud-based security solution for the mobile enterprise market.
The partnership combines Zscaler's security cloud with Samsung's Android-based security platform KNOX, which offers a suite of security features and apps.
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Samsung also announced a partnership with Citrix to provide the latter's security apps in the KNOX app store.
Top of the list is Citrix XenMobile, an Android-based security solution designed for enterprise and government. It offers a slew of security controls, including role-based management, automatic policy privision, blacklisting and whitelisting of apps, the ability to detect and prevent against jailbroken devices, and complete or selective wiping of lost, stolen, or our of compliance devices.
Other Citrix apps available now through Samsung KNOX include XenDesktop, XepApp, Receiver, ShareFile, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, GoToMyPC, and Podio.
The security solutions come as malware on mobile devices becomes a growing concern among business users, particulars with the rise of Bring Your Own Device policies. 68 per cent of IT-controlled enterprises reported that this is their top security concern, according to a study by IDC.