Samsung has announced new security and privacy updates for its upcoming Galaxy smartphones with One UI 8. These updates strengthen Samsung’s commitment to trusted mobile technology by introducing protections for on-device AI, expanding cross-device threat detection, and enhancing network security with quantum-resistant encryption.
Next-Generation Mobile Security for AI Personalisation
Samsung is introducing Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), a new architecture designed to safeguard the next generation of personalised, AI-powered features, as its latest innovation in mobile security. KEEP creates encrypted, app-specific storage environments within the device’s secure storage area, ensuring that each app can access only its own sensitive information and nothing more.
Supporting Galaxy’s Personal Data Engine (PDE), KEEP secures a user’s personal insights like routines and preferences, enabling features such as Now Brief and Smart Gallery search. These insights remain on-device, protected by KEEP and secured by Knox Vault, Samsung’s tamper-resistant hardware. This provides a foundation for Galaxy AI, delivering personalized intelligence while keeping user data secure.
KEEP’s system-level structure enables scalability across Galaxy AI innovations, now safeguarding features like Smart Suggestions that depend on user inputs. Samsung is redefining mobile data security, embedding privacy as a core principle.
Smarter, More Connected Threat Response with Knox Matrix
As AI becomes more integrated, Samsung is enhancing user protection with Knox Matrix. Through One UI 8, it offers user-friendly security for Galaxy devices. When a device is at serious risk, it automatically signs out of the Samsung Account, limiting access to cloud services.
Users receive notifications on connected devices and can review issues on the ‘Security status of your devices’ page. Even those without the latest updates trigger warnings, allowing proactive responses.
These updates make Samsung Galaxy’s protections more dynamic and transparent, empowering users with greater confidence in their device security.
Secure Wi-Fi Strengthened with Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Samsung is enhancing its commitment to quantum-safe security by introducing post-quantum cryptography to Secure Wi-Fi. This upgrade, part of the Post-Quantum Enhanced Data Protection (EDP), strengthens network security by safeguarding the key exchange process critical for encrypted connections. As quantum computing could compromise current data protection methods, this integration ensures that Secure Wi-Fi can resist future threats, particularly the “harvest now, decrypt later” tactic. It bolsters the security of data transmissions in high-risk environments, like public Wi-Fi.
In addition to this future-ready foundation, Secure Wi-Fi offers a suite of advanced privacy features:
- Auto Protect: Automatically activates in public places like cafés, airports or hotels, securing Wi-Fi connections without requiring user action.
- Enhanced Privacy Protection (EPP): Encrypts internet traffic and routes it through multiple layers, combining packet encryption and relay to anonymise device information and help prevent tracking.
- Protection Activity: Provides visibility into protection history by showing which apps and networks were secured and how much data was encrypted over time.
A Trusted Platform with Built-In Safeguards
In addition to its latest innovations, Samsung continues to strengthen the core protections that underpin the Galaxy experience. These features reflect a multi-layered security approach that protects across hardware and software, while giving users greater visibility and control:
- Knox Vault secures sensitive credentials such as passwords, PINs and biometrics in a physically isolated environment, helping to keep them protected even if the main operating system is compromised.
- Auto Blocker helps provide defense by default, blocking unauthorised app installs, restricting command-based attacks and mitigating risks from potential zero-click threats.
- Advanced Intelligence Settings gives users the option to turn off online data processing for AI features, so personal information can stay on-device, fully under their control.
- Enhanced Theft Protection helps protect personal data even in high-risk situations such as robbery, using safeguards like Identity Check and Security Delay to prevent unauthorised access.
This latest set of updates emphasizes Samsung’s commitment to evolving mobile security. It enhances on-device privacy for AI with KEEP, expands user control through Knox Matrix, and introduces quantum-resistant protection to Secure Wi-Fi for a more future-ready experience. As security challenges arise, Samsung focuses on delivering built-in safeguards that are always on and ready for what’s next.