Across the enterprise, the “office” is no longer a fixed location—it’s wherever an employee happens to be. For chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs), this creates a growing challenge: how to secure mobile access without compromising user experience or adding complexity for IT teams.
Samsung and Cisco are addressing this challenge with the next advancement in Zero Trust Access for Samsung Galaxy mobile devices. By bringing more intelligent, unified protection to the mobile experience, this collaboration helps organizations support secure access across more of how employees work today.
Read on to learn how Samsung and Cisco are helping organizations protect mobile productivity while keeping deployment and policy management simpler across the enterprise.
Table of contents:
- A closer look into Cisco Zero Trust Access for Samsung Knox
- One client for private and internet access
- Built on Samsung Knox for secure mobile work
- Securing the future of mobile work with Samsung and Cisco
A closer look into Cisco Zero Trust Access for Samsung Knox
The Cisco Zero Trust Access (ZTA) client for Samsung Knox already helps organizations secure access to private applications. Through Secure Private Access (SPA), employees can connect to the internal tools they need without exposing the broader corporate network.
Organizations can also enforce app/destination-specific policies on managed devices. This strategy helps ensure that access to corporate resources is secure, seamless, and based on Zero Trust principles.
But modern work now extends beyond private applications. Employees browse the open web, use software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and interact with generative AI (genAI) tools throughout the day. These workflows create more traffic types for IT and security teams to manage.
To support this shift, Samsung and Cisco have introduced policy-based routing (PBR) as the underlying engine of the Cisco ZTA client for Samsung Knox. PBR allows the client to distinguish between different types of traffic and dynamically steer traffic from endpoint devices based on Cisco Secure Access policies and resource categorization at runtime.
Depending on the destination and zero trust security policy, the client can decide whether to:
- Proxy access to the resource through the Cisco Secure Access gateway
- Block access to the resource
- Allow access through the default network path
Together, the existing SPA framework and PBR enable Samsung and Cisco to extend Zero Trust Access beyond private applications and across more of the mobile work experience.
One client for private and internet access
With PBR, Samsung and Cisco can extend protection across a wider range of mobile traffic. For Galaxy mobile users, the Cisco ZTA client for Samsung Knox helps support two connected access experiences through the Cisco Secure Access cloud:
Built on Samsung Knox for secure mobile work
A single-client approach helps reduce complexity for users and IT teams alike. With fewer agents to manage, organizations can minimize agent fatigue while supporting a more consistent experience across Galaxy mobile devices.
By bringing intelligent cloud-based security together with hardware-backed protection from Samsung Knox, organizations can extend Zero Trust principles across mobile devices without introducing additional tools or friction.
Access policy management also becomes simpler for IT teams across mobile traffic and enterprise resources.
Securing the future of mobile work with Samsung and Cisco
As mobile work continues to expand across private applications and public internet traffic, organizations need security that keeps pace without adding complexity. With Samsung Knox and Cisco Secure Access, IT teams can support a more secure, consistent experience across Galaxy mobile devices.
For IT admins, this means simpler deployment and more unified policy management. For end users, it means secure access that works quietly in the background, helping them stay productive without unnecessary friction.
Together, Samsung and Cisco help organizations put Zero Trust into practice across everyday workflows—protecting users, devices, and access wherever work happens.
Ready to secure your mobile workforce? Learn more about Samsung Knox and Cisco Secure Access, and see how these solutions help protect users, devices, and access across your organization.
