Centrify and Samsung announce OEM Partnership
February 2013 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., has selected Centrify Corporation to provide key enabling technology for Samsung’s next generation mobile enterprise solution - Samsung KNOX.
The Centrify technology Samsung is embedding into its KNOX solution is also generally available as part of Centrify’s latest Cloud Services release, Centrify for Mobile 2013, also announced today.
As part of this OEM agreement, Centrify will help Samsung power the growth of an easy-to-use, developer kit and ISV app ecosystem for Android in the enterprise through the licensing of its Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) Software Development Kit (SDK) into the Samsung for Enterprise (SAFE) SDK Framework. This enables any Android app developer to use this SAFE mobile client SDK within their rich native mobile app to enable “Zero Sign-On” from devices running KNOX to their cloud-based applications.