{"id":2894,"date":"2025-07-09T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/?page_id=2894"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:15:25","slug":"samsung-announces-major-security-enhancements-coming-to-one-ui-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/?page_id=2894","title":{"rendered":"Samsung announces major security enhancements coming to One UI 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Samsung has announced multiple data security and privacy enhancements for its upcoming Galaxy smartphones running One UI 8, its custom user interface on top of Android. Key highlights include the introduction of a system-level architecture named Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), upgrades to Knox Matrix, and the addition of quantum resistance to WiFi connectivity.<\/p>

Keeping AI data secure<\/strong><\/p>

With AI tools taking an increasing role in day-to-day smartphone use, protecting user inputs has become more crucial. To address this, Samsung is introducing KEEP, a system built to support the company’s Personal Data Engine (PDE) and other AI features like \u2018Now Brief\u2019 (personalized daily updates), \u2018Smart Suggestions,\u2019 \u2018Moments\u2019 (photo memories), and \u2018Smart Gallery Search\u2019 (natural language photo retrieval).<\/p>

KEEP is different from the existing \u2018Secure Folder\u2019, which is just a separate secure storage space. It is an architecture that creates isolated environments for each app to store sensitive data in encrypted state and keep it protected from unauthorized access by other processes.<\/p>

Knox Matrix expansion<\/strong><\/p>

Knox Matrix, Samsung\u2019s multi-device\u00a0platform designed to protect and manage security across all connected Galaxy devices, will also receive significant upgrades in One UI 8. First, when the system detects manipulation or identity forgery, Knox Matrix will automatically sign out of the Samsung Account, cutting off the attacker\u2019s channel to access cloud-connected services, data, and pivot to other devices. If such an event occurs,\u00a0the user receives an alert across all their connected Galaxy devices.<\/p>

Another important addition to Knox Matrix concerns the delivery of warnings to users when they have yet to apply the latest security updates on their devices.<\/p>

Quantum WiFi<\/strong><\/p>

The release of One UI 8 also brings upgrades to Samsung\u2019s \u2018Secure WiFi,\u2019 which will use the NIST-certified ML\u2011KEM scheme to offer post-quantum cryptographic resistance.<\/p>

This strengthens the key-exchange process and protects encrypted connections from future quantum-based threats such as \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks, which could expose sensitive user data in the future.<\/p>

Secure Wi-Fi also offers automatic strengthening when connecting to public hotspots, multi-point routing and packet encryption for anonymization, and security-related logging.<\/p>

One UI 8 is expected to be released alongside Samsung\u2019s upcoming launch of the widely anticipated Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 devices, but the update is also expected to reach older Galaxy models soon.<\/p>

Users who want to take advantage of the new protections should upgrade to the new release and review their data privacy and security settings accordingly.<\/p>

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Samsung has announced multiple data security and privacy enhancements for its upcoming Galaxy smartphones running One UI 8, its custom user interface on top of Android. Key highlights include the introduction of a system-level architecture named Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), upgrades to Knox Matrix, and the addition of quantum resistance to WiFi connectivity. Keeping AI data secure With AI tools taking an increasing role in day-to-day smartphone use, protecting user inputs has become more crucial. To address this, Samsung is introducing KEEP, a system built to support the company’s Personal Data Engine (PDE) and other AI features like \u2018Now\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2894\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cert-mu.govmu.org\/cert-mu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}