Secure Your Meetings
Unfortunately, “Zoombombings” and other unwelcome intrusions continue to impact meetings at VCU and worldwide. To summarize the many security options available to you as a meeting host, we’ve created this video guide to help you keep your meetings safe:
In brief, consider employing as many options as practical when securing your meetings:
- Avoid advertising your meeting links on social media (0:43)
- If you do advertise your event publicly, only share the link to a registration page (1:04)
- Use randomly-generated passcodes to deter intruders (2:41)
- Limit attendance to only authenticated users (3:26)
- Use a waiting room to control who gets in (4:35)
- Limit Screen Sharing to just the host (5:36)
- Disable participant video (6:03)
- Use Focus Mode to keep all eyes on the host (6:52)
- Mute participant audio (7:27)
- Use the “Host Tools” feature to deal with issues during your meeting (7:43)
- Disable Annotation for guests (8:46)
- Keep an eye on Virtual Backgrounds (9:06)
- Report Zoombombings (9:46)
Additionally, in our ongoing efforts to improve security, we’ve recently enabled Zoom’s new “Bot Detection” feature to identify and eject suspected bots from VCU-hosted meetings. Meanwhile, Zoom is constantly releasing updates to address known vulnerabilities, so be sure to keep your software version current.
As always, if you have questions or concerns about security or any Zoom features, feel free to contact us at [email protected].
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