Samsung Is A Big Threat To Apple's Dominance In The Enterprise

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Android is open source and that puts devices that run on the operating system at a considerable disadvantage in the security-sensitive enterprise space. Letting a decentralized group of developers change the platform to suit their needs naturally increases the risk of security flaws.

Apple's "walled-garden" approach to iOS, which privileges tight control, decreases the probability that someone will create an accidental flaw in the system.

Things may be changing, according to CIO. Devices produced by Samsung now account for over 60% of Android devices.The large number of people who use Samsung's devices means that the company's devices will be increasingly better understood by developers and thereby less prone to flaws.

Samsung also recently developed and released a new security feature, Knox, for a number of its devices. Knox uses two operating systems to partition certain functions of a user's phone. The result is that companies can more easily secure things that they would like to keep private like emails and dropbox folders, while at the same time allowing employees to use their devices seamlessly for work and personal functions. (CIO)

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