Hey friends!
I’m Tasia and this video will show you how to have a more secure Zoom video chat.
With stay at home orders and many people working from home, video meetings are more popular
than ever and you’d be living under a rock if you haven’t heard of Zoom.
However, with the rise in popularity of zoom video chats, comes the concern over zoom security
settings, and many people are asking: is Zoom safe to use?
So, if you have Zoom security concerns and need to use it regularly for meetings, take
these steps to ensure a more secure zoom video chat.
Number 1: Don't use your Personal Meeting ID for the meeting.
Instead, use a non-recurring meeting ID, or an per-meeting ID, which is used for one meeting
and one meeting only.
Basically, you want to generate a random link for one use only.
Your profile may or may not already be setup this way, but to check, sign into your Zoom
account on the web and click on ‘my account’, under this ‘profile’ section, click ‘edit’
to the right of the Personal Meeting ID section and make sure the ‘use personal meeting
ID for instant meetings’ option is toggled off.
You can also see these options in your settings section which we’ll head to next.
Number 2: Set a password for your meeting.
Again, from the Zoom web portal, head to your settings.
Scroll down here, and ensure you’ve toggled on the option for both ‘require a password
when scheduling new meetings’, and ‘require a password for instant meetings’.
If you are going to use your personal meeting ID, make sure you’re password protecting
those meetings too.
I have all of my password protection options enabled here.
Number 3: Authenticate participants for the meeting.
In that same settings section, make sure only authenticated users can join meetings.
This will require participants to sign in and essentially authenticate themselves prior
to joining the meeting.
Number 4: Do not allow other participants to join a meeting before you, the host.
Again, from the settings, make sure ‘join before host’ is toggled off.
Number 5: Enable the waiting room feature.
This way you can see who is trying to join your meeting before you allow or deny them
access.
How to do this will differ on the zoom account type you have.
For individual users, you’ll head to the Meetings tab found in your Settings section.
Now click the ‘in meeting - advanced’ option.
Scroll down to ‘waiting room’ and make sure that’s enabled.
On this note, I’ve also got the option to allow removed participants to rejoin, toggled
off.
So, if someone did get through and join your meeting and you’ve removed them, they can’t
get back in.
And to further make sure this doesn’t happen I bring you
Number 6: Lock your meeting.
Once a meeting has begun and all your participants have joined, head to the ‘manage participants’
tab, click ‘more’ and choose to ‘lock’ the meeting.
This way, even if your meeting ID has been accessed, the hacker won’t be able to join
your already in-progress meeting.
Number 7: Turn off participant screen sharing.
From your settings section, click ‘in meeting - basic, scroll down and you’ll see quite
a few screen sharing options.
Here, you can toggle on the option for host only to share the screen.
You can also enable the feature to disable desktop/screen share for users.
Now, if you want to do this on a per meeting basis, you can do this during a meeting as
well in the security section.
Number 8: Disable file sharing.
I always recommend emailing any necessary files to your team prior to your meeting,
rather than allowing file sharing within Zoom.
So, in your basic meetings section, just above all the screen sharing options, you’ll be
able to disable the file transfer option.
Last but not least, be sure you’re checking for updates to the Zoom software.
Oftentimes, these software updates will include bug fixes and address security issues.
So those are my tips on how to secure your Zoom video chat.
Do you have Zoom security concerns?
How have you addressed them?
Let everyone know in the comments below.
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