My Knox is a mobile app for smartphones and tablets under the Samsung brand. It is considered to be very useful and practically indispensable because allows you to open applications, including Sberbank-Online or Samsung Pay, in safe mode. How is Sberbank set up for My Knox?
My Knox security system is a pre-installed application for most modern mobile devices under the Samsung brand. The application can also be downloaded from Google Play on Android 4.4 and above, it is compatible with Galaxy A5, A7, S7, S6 edge +, S6 Edge, Note 5. It has a Russified interface.
The application works in such a way that it prevents any external hacker attack. The system is monitored continuously, the vulnerability of the smartphone is instantly suppressed. Even if some malicious program infects the phone, the card data, access to Sberbank Online will be very well encrypted in a closed Knox container.
How My Knox works
- The application creates copies of financial applications (and not only), blocking access to them without authorization for unauthorized people (in fact, an analogue of a private mode to hide what is not intended for outside people and hackers).
- It allows you to install applications in your own storage so that they are completely hidden from others (without duplicates in the main phone). This ensures the maximum level of security for banking customers.
- Allows you to clearly separate public and private content and applications at the interface level.
- Provides additional features of increased security measures for the gadget and an emergency response button and blocking the phone in the hands of fraudsters forever.
- Allows you to keep separate calendar entries, contacts, accounts, securely store passwords, etc.
- Has its own individual synchronization with Samsung Cloud and maintains its own internal statistics on data usage.
Thus, owners of My Knox can actually use a second smartphone, safely hidden inside their main phone. Switching between them is done by simply clicking on the Knox icon.
My Knox to protect your Sberbank card in Samsung Pay
Using the Samsung Pay application, smartphone users can comfortably pay for purchases using contactless technology, through a magnetic stripe and by credit card.
- Download the Samsung Pay app and My Knox (if the latter is not preinstalled on your smartphone). Activate both applications, My Knox will apply the settings automatically, you just need to confirm your consent to access. Give permission to install the payment app in My Knox. For the secure payment system to work correctly, please register your Samsung account.
- Allow the device to read and validate your fingerprint. Then come up with and enter a PIN into Samsung Pay.
- Add your Sberbank card. Scan it using the built-in camera of your phone or enter the data manually. You will receive an SMS confirmation with a one-time password. A window will appear on the smartphone screen to draw your personal signature. After 10 minutes, the card will switch to the registered status.
- In the application, the screen will display the last four digits of the card and the token number. 10 plastic cards can be attached to one Samsung.
Now you can use your mobile phone to pay for purchases in safe mode by bringing your phone to the reader.
