While most government agencies took steps to identify instances of TikTok following a push by Congress late last year to ban the use of the application on federal devices, the technology officials have questions remaining on how agencies will demonstrate compliance with the order, what the memo means for Bring Your Own Device policies and the extent to which it is politically driven…
Two of the senior technology officials said their agencies had already conducted the analysis required to establish how many devices were operating TikTok and had taken action to prevent staff from installing and using the application.
IT departments can enforce such measures by remotely removing the application across selected devices, which can also require the use of “allowlists” or “blocklists” when targeting a specific piece of software… Read the full article here.