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Audience

This document is intended for:

• IT Admins — Learn how to manage and secure devices with Knox Guard.

About Knox Guard

Knox Guard is a new cloud-based service enabling administrators supporting carriers, banks, and retailers to remotely manage, message, and, if necessary, lock Samsung devices to reduce an organization's financial risk, device black market sales and overdue subscriber payments. Mobile device carriers can utilize Knox Guard to securely monitor device subscription payments, notify delinquent customers of their overdue subscription status, and lock devices either individually or in bulk until delinquent subscription payments are made and the devices unlocked.

Knox Guard supports Samsung mobile devices running Knox version 2.7.1 or higher.

Key Knox Guard features include:

• Overdue notifications - Subscription payment overdue notifications of increasing severity can be sent from Knox Guard to selected overdue devices. Once received, the user can optionally, swipe the message from the device.
• Blink reminders - Blinking, non-dismissible, payment reminder messages can be remotely sent to delinquent devices in real-time until their payment status has been restored to good standing.
• Device lock/unlock capability - Knox Guard can lockdown an end user's device as a last resort payment recovery option. Once locked, the device's USB, Bluetooth, NFC, FOTA, factory reset and binary flashing capabilities are restricted. Once the user's payment subscription has been restored to good standing, the device can be unlocked and functionality restored.
• Manage payments - Update a device user's payment compliance as subscription payments are made to the financial institution supporting the subscriber.
• Delete devices - Permanently remove a device from Knox Guard when in a rejected or payment complete state. Devices can also be removed during the 'Completing' state.
• Manage resellers - Register approved resellers so Samsung can verify their device ownership and assist in preventing erroneous enrollments.
• Manage administrators & Roles - Create Knox Guard administrator accounts as new admin accounts and their permissions and roles require, or revise the account privileges of an existing administrator.
• Manage policies - Set default enrollment settings, notifications, blink reminders, device lock and EULA values that can be applied to all devices managed by Knox Guard.

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