Company argues Outlook app a security risk

Typically, using Outlook on a PC to access company email is done from within the company network or via secure VPN. Moreover, you can't compare Outlook.exe to the Outlook for Android app. The former is very well known and was, indeed, produced by Microsoft. The latter is not originally a Microsoft product. They bought it from Acompli and it really is anyone's guess how secure it is. In addition to that, the connection methods are probably different.

What bothers me a little about the company stance, though, is that if they don't want people to connect to their Exchange server with mobile devices, they shouldn't be offering the connection.

Nevertheless, they make the rules. The employees must abide by them.

Well, your company has the right to make whatever policy they wish. You'll have to take it up with the people who make those policies. They should have an appeal process. This is not an issue with any Microsoft product. It's an issue of how your company wishes to protect its mail system.

You can argue anything you like, and I certainly think accessing your mail from Outlook on your home PC is no more secure than the Outlook for Android app, but are you using Outlook on the desktop or are you using Outlook Web App via a web browser to your Exchange mailbox?

No matter what you argue, though, our opinions won't count for much. We're not Microsoft, we're just users of the products like yourself. This is an issue you'll need to hash out through your management at work.

Typically, using Outlook on a PC to access company email is done from within the company network or via secure VPN. Moreover, you can't compare Outlook.exe to the Outlook for Android app. The former is very well known and was, indeed, produced by Microsoft. The latter is not originally a Microsoft product. They bought it from Acompli and it really is anyone's guess how secure it is. In addition to that, the connection methods are probably different.

What bothers me a little about the company stance, though, is that if they don't want people to connect to their Exchange server with mobile devices, they shouldn't be offering the connection.

Nevertheless, they make the rules. The employees must abide by them.

The "rules" are unclear.  For instance there is no restriction on using Outlook from "home" without a VPN.  Can I argue that the outlook app is no more insecure than doing this? 

I am really under the gun, because the IT folks are shutting down my email with serious consequences.  Like I did something wrong.  Trusting Microsoft is like trusting the Federal Reserve.  Their security is impermeable, whether they originated the software or not - whats wrong with acquiring a company? 

Or another way of putting it, isn't the Android mail app just as "insecure"?  Please help because I need to get my email access back.

OK, but I tried to argue that the use of the Outlook mobile app is no more risky to the company security than is the use of Outlook.exe on a Windows PC.  Am I correct?  Thanks.