Samsung has revealed several data security and privacy enhancements to their new Galaxy smartphones powered by One UI 8, the company user interface over Android.
Today, Samsung Electronics told a new series of security and privacy updates that will come with its future Samsung Galaxy smartphones running One UI 8. These upgrades strengthen Samsung to be the provider of powerful, trusted mobile technology in the fast-changing digital world by adding new protections to on-device AI, extending cross-device threat detection, and network security with quantum-resistant encryption.
Future-Gen Mobile Security to personalise AI
The next innovation in mobile security that Samsung is presenting is Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), a new architecture that will protect the next generation of personalized, AI-driven features. KEEP implements encrypted and app-specific storage zones in the secure storage space of the device, making sure that an app can access its own sensitive data and nothing beyond that.
KEEP supports Galaxy Personal Data Engine (PDE), which helps protect a user against deeply personal insights about themselves, such as routines and preferences, which enables such features as Now Brief and Smart Gallery search.
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These insights remain on-device and enforced by KEEP and even more secured by Knox Vault, a tamper-resistant hardware security environment offered by Samsung. The outcome is a smooth base of Galaxy AI that provides individual intelligence and keeps data highly compact, within the user control.
KEEP’s system-level structure allows it to scale across Galaxy AI innovations.
More Intelligent, Better Connected Defense Response Knox Matrix
As AI becomes increasingly part of the ecosystem, Samsung is taking steps to provide more robust protections not only to provide stronger security, but also to provide users with more transparency and control, with Knox Matrix on the forefront of this. Samsung is also developing Knox Matrix through One UI 8 to provide more proactive and user-friendly security of the connected Galaxy devices.
Safe Wi-Fi Reinforced With Quantum-Safe Encryption
Samsung is also introducing post-quantum cryptography to Secure Wi-Fi,4 which is based on the same trusted methodology that has been applied to the Galaxy S25 series by Post-Quantum Enhanced Data Protection (EDP). The Wi-Fi is currently being enhanced with a new cryptographic structure5 that is supposed to enhance network security against the new threats and especially those that may arise in the quantum computing era.
Beside this future-safe basis, Secure Wi-Fi also provides a set of premium privacy options:
Auto Protect: Auto-connects in a public areas such as cafes, airports or hotels and locks down Wi-Fi connections without the need of any user action.
Increased Privacy Protection (EPP): Encodes internet traffic and uses several layers of it, which is packet encryption alongside relay to anonymize information about the devices and aid in preventing tracking.
Protection Activity: Gives insight into history of protection: which applications and networks were locked and what amount of data was encrypted along the history.
A Secure Platform Having Inner Protections
Besides its recent additions, Samsung is also enhancing the fundamental protections on One UI 8 that form the foundation of the Galaxy experience. These characteristics demonstrate a multi-layered security strategy that secures both on the hardware and software level, but also provides the user with more visibility and control:
Knox Vault protects confidential information like passwords, PIN, biometrics in a physically segregated zone and assists in keeping them secure even when there is failure in the primary operating system.
Auto Blocker assists in having a protection by default feature, that blocks unpermitted app installations, limits command-based attacks, and reduces risks of possible zero-clicks.
Advanced Intelligence Settings also allows users to choose to turn off online data processing to AI features, which allows personal information to remain on-device, under absolute control.
The Enhanced Theft Protection feature can help to keep personal data secure even in the case of robbery and use features such as Identity Check and Security Delay to prohibit unauthorized access.
This is the most recent batch of updates that confirm the long-standing dedication of Samsung to mobile security that is developing in line with innovations. It enhances on-device privacy of personalized AI with KEEP, increases transparency and user control with Knox Matrix, and adds quantum-resistant security to Secure Wi-Fi so that the Galaxy is more future-proof. With emerging security threats, Samsung is committed to providing built in, always on and what is next security.
