The Australian defence department has taken a similar stance to the US in not approving the use of short video app TikTok on devices used by its military personnel.
Guidelines published in April last year by the Australian Government’s Cybersecurity Centre said “whitelisting” was one of the government’s major cyber threat mitigation strategies, which “can contribute to the identification of attempts by an adversary to execute malicious code”.
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