[CrackBerry News]

At the BlackBerry Enterprise event today in San Francisco, BlackBerry together with Samsung has announced a ne partnership to bring end-to-end security to Android through BES12 and Samsung KNOX.

"We share the goal to provide enterprises with the most secure mobility solutions through this partnership with BlackBerry," said Injong Rhee, Senior Vice President of KNOX Business Group, Samsung Electronics. "Samsung KNOX is focused on delivering secure mobility solutions to enterprises and, combined with BES12, we will offer more options for customers that need enhanced levels of security on Android devices."
"BlackBerry has developed a very close partnership with Samsung and we're committed to deepening the interaction between our engineering and product development teams for the long-term," said John Sims, President of Global Enterprise Services, BlackBerry. "It is a natural progression in our path to providing our customers with more alternatives to meet their evolving mobile needs. Samsung KNOX offers a number of hardware and software security features and our partnership allows us to tightly integrate these capabilities with BES12."

The partnership does come as a bit of a surprise for both organizations but given both companies offerings interests in security offerings and enterprise, it really does make sense. We've got the full press release below.

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