With the latest major release of the Android OS, codenamed “Lollipop”, Google is playing its best cards to enter the enterprise market. Android 5.0 Lollipop has introduced new features, security enhancement and upgraded API for device management; it can now be considered a mature operating system to be used in critical environment and a potential major player in the enterprise world. The talk will explore new features such as the “kill switch” factory reset, the smart lock functionality and other innovative security features and improvements. The session will end with a deep technical discussion on the device management extensions offered by Android; it will focus on the new “managed profile” feature for “containerization technology”, based on the integration of Samsung‘s KNOX platform, which offers the ability to run enterprise applications in a secure protected environment and to keep the working and personal spaces independent from each other.
