FireEye Integrates Threat Detect System into Samsung Knox; Manish Gupta Comments

FireEye has incorporated its mobile threat prevention offering into Samsung Knox-enabled devices in a move to help detect and mitigate malicious applications.

The combined service works to scan apps using the FireEye mobile security tool to determine the app’s security status, block high-risk apps and notify users of malware, FireEye said Monday.

FireEye will also prevent an app from running on Samsung devices using Samsung’s application programming interfaces until security analysis is completed.

Manish Gupta, senior vice president of products at FireEye, said Samsung and FireEye intend for the integrated service to “help protect individuals and by extension the organizations where they work.”

Gupta added that mobile devices in a bring-your-own-device ecosystem “creates a highly valuable target for bad actors and apps are a perfect delivery method as they open the device up to a wide variety of malicious activity.”

FireEye’s researchers recently discovered that 31 percent of more than 50,000 sample downloads in Google’s app store contained vulnerabilities.

The FireEye mobile security team will demonstrate the integrated product at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.