Can Skie run a customer kiosk or tablet in a bank branch?

Skie for Enterprise · Updated

Short answer

Yes, technically. Skie can lock a branch tablet to a single app in full-screen kiosk mode or with a one-app list, with settings and the Play Store blocked. Whether that meets the bank's own security and regulatory requirements is for the bank's compliance team to decide, since Skie only controls the Android device.

Branch tablets are used for token systems, feedback, product information, account opening forms and queue management. The device needs to be dull: one app, nothing else, nothing to tamper with.

In Skie, create a branch-kiosk group and attach a one-app list, or use full-screen kiosk mode. The Play Store is hidden, the browser is off, and factory reset from Settings, safe mode, developer options, adb, adding users and uninstalling Skie are all blocked. Optional switches disable the camera, USB data on Android 14 and newer, Bluetooth and NFC.

Keep it on a stand and monitor it. The dashboard shows last seen, compliance score and alerts, and a missing check-in counts as a breach, so you find out if a tablet is unplugged or off. A geofence flags removal from the branch.

What Skie does not do matters for banks. It does not control the app running on the tablet or the data it handles. It does not offer single sign-on, a printable audit file or an open interface for your own systems yet. It also does not claim to meet any banking regulation, and your own security team should review it against the institution's standards.

Share a short device description with that team: Android 12 or newer, device owner mode, signed policies, read-back of each protection, data stored in an India region in Mumbai. Then pilot on a few branches before extending.