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I ban Whatsapp but require Teams on company devices.

Can you explain why the thinking is wrong?

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.

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.

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.

Not wrong.

MS Teams allow for offline/local storage of its video/chat conferencing.

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