Is Zoom Video Conferencing Safe to use? Do these things to Protect yourself
April 14, 2020
Since the novel Coronavirus spread around the world, it affected all the businesses, education, industries and many more. Nowadays, everyone is adopting video conference solutions in order to continue their operations including Skype, Google Meetings, Zoom, etc.
You know, Zoom was unknown to everyone a few weeks ago but it gained millions of downloads over the past weeks. In July 2019, a researcher disclosed a severe security issue in which Zoom opened up webcams to persistent spying and compromise; a bug that stayed in place even if the software was uninstalled due to a leftover local web server. Many other incidents have come forward in recent times which show several security issues in Zoom. Google and SpaceX have too banned their employees from using this software anymore.
In order to maintain your privacy, you must follow these basic tips we have mentioned below :
1. PASSWORD PROTECT YOUR MEETINGS
It is a must to password protect all the meetings you hold so as to prevent anyone else from entering the meeting and hijacking too. In order to set up a password, you can go to settings in Zoom app and turn on "Require a password when scheduling new meetings". Share the password and meeting ID to the attendees who are to be joining the meeting.
2. USE WAITING ROOMS
Waiting rooms can be used to screen the participants until they join a meeting. It is useful for interviews and it gives great control to the host too.
3. JOIN BEFORE HOST
Never allow the participants to join the meeting before the host has joined. Head over to settings in order to implement this option.
4. LOCKDOWN YOUR MEETING
Once every participant has joined the meeting, you should lock the meeting so that no one else can also now even if the meeting link or ID gets leaked. You should find this option in the Manage Participants tab in Zoom.
5. USE A RANDOMLY-GENERATED ID
You should use a randomly generated ID instead of using your personal meeting ID as it could let the pranksters disrupt online meetings who knows how to. Never share your personal meeting ID.
6. AVOID FILE SHARING
Avoid enabling file sharing feature in meetings as it might let unknown users to share contents which might be malicious. Instead, share files using services like Google Drive or Dropbox.
7. AUTHENTICATE USERS
You should only those users whom you know and this can be done when they are joining your meeting.
7. AUTHENTICATE USERS
You should only those users whom you know and this can be done when they are joining your meeting.
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