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I ban Whatsapp but require Teams on company devices. Can you explain why the thinking is wrong?

• benced 1y ago
  This is very reasonable if you have compliance needs or similar. That’s not what this office is saying - it’s saying teams is more secure. This is wrong. The nature of banning private messaging apps is trading security for legibility. If this office is interested in that (which it’s not - it allows Signal), they should say so.
  • swarnie 1y ago
    I do have a compliance need, similar to this office i imagine. Teams is more secure in my opinion. I as an admin can control who you can/can't talk to, what you can share with them, when you can share it. Correctly configured MS Teams is a pretty secure setup. On the flipside im not sure i can make someone else's Whatsapp not auto download anything sent to it.... The two apps aren't really comparable unless I've missed an entire 'Whatapps for government/enterprise' business arm.
  • margalabargala 1y ago
    Your Teams is not the government's Teams. Microsoft maintains specific secure government versions of Teams that use their own special secure data centers. It's a full parallel extra secure set of infrastructure.
• egberts1 1y ago
  Not wrong. MS Teams allow for offline/local storage of its video/chat conferencing.