CIOs and CIROs were, I’m sure, never fully comfortable with seeing free, consumer-grade messaging tools like WhatsApp being used in their business for sharing confidential information or client data but because they met a very real business case for a more immediate chat experience, little was done. The tide is turningįor many years, businesses have worked to an assumption of ”acceptable risk”. The company’s fear was that because such apps could access users’ “personal and potentially confidential data, such as contacts, and thus the information of third parties”, it violated GDPR’s terms for the processing and storing of personal data.Īlso, because WhatsApp is most likely connected to a user’s individual account, companies lose the ability to centrally audit the app, and inform customers how their data is being handled another core GDPR requirement. In June this year, Continental banned the use of WhatsApp on 36,000 devices used by a workforce of almost 240,000 employees. This is what recently led to Continental ban WhatsApp for its mobile workforce. Worryingly, it’s also unclear exactly what data is extracted from a user’s address books by WhatsApp, how it’s processed, and what is shared with its parent company Facebook. Happens to include the names of other employees, and clients. The Q2 ’18 Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report from security provider Appthority, looks at the mobile apps most commonly used in enterprises, and also the apps most likely to be blacklisted by IT teams.
#WICKR ME VS WIRE ANDROID#
Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Wickr Me are the most frequently blacklisted Android apps by enterprises, according to a new 2018 study.
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