In it’s simplest form, think of Entra Global Secure Access as a full time secure VPN to resources like Microsoft 365 services such as SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, etc as well as to on premises resources and finally to Internet web sites.

Entra Global Secure Access does this on iOS via a Microsoft Defender app on the device and configuration via Intune. You can now try this out by following:

Global Secure Access client for iOS (preview)

The Entra Global Secure Access service requires a paid subscription as well as Entra ID P1 or P2 (i.e. it is Microsoft 365 Business Premium compatible). When you have enabled the client you will see in Defender:

Unfortunately, the preview as yet doesn’t support the Internet traffic forwarding, which other clients do. Hopefully, that is not far away as that will really make this a killer product in my books.

I have been using Entra Global Secure access on all my Windows and Android devices for quite a while now without issues and look forward to seeing the iOS client fully mature.