Kaprica Security, a College Park, Md.-based “computer security research company,” announced on Thursday that a piece of software developed by its team, Tachyon, has been acquired by Samsung.

Tachyon, essentially, is a software solution for mobile device configuration. The technology itself is handset-manufacturer agnostic, but the Tachyon team has been working closely with Samsung devices since launching two years ago. As Doug Britton, CEO of Kaprica, explained to Technical.ly, all Samsung phones and tablets come out of the box exactly the same. But if they’re going to be used for sensitive, work-related things by employees of enterprises dealing in sensitive information (think government or healthcare), the devices need to be configured for security.

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