Zoom - Security
Below are tips on how to keep your Zoom meetings secure and protect against Zoombombing.
Scheduling a Meeting
The following security features are available in your “Schedule a Meeting” window in your Zoom account.
- Enable waiting room: This feature allows you to see all participants in a waiting area before permitting them into the meeting.
- Meeting Password: This provides an additional layer of security, requiring your participants to have access to your meeting link as well as the numerical password.
- Require Authentication to Join: Selecting this setting will assure that only participants who are signed into a Zoom account will be able to join your meeting.
- Mute participants upon entry: Selecting this feature ensures that no participant joining the meeting will be able to unmute their microphone unless you as the host provide that permission
- Participant Video: Turning the participant video off will ensure that participants are unable to use their camera in the connection and potentially distract other participants
- Allow participants to join anytime: This feature should be unchecked as it would allow anybody with your meeting link to start your meeting without your participation.
While In a Meeting
The following security features are available in your running Zoom call.
- Mute participants: You can select to mute all participants as they enter the meeting, mute all participants, or mute individual participants - more info
- Lock your meeting: This will prevent any new participants from joining your meeting - more info
- Enable waiting room: You can enable and disable your waiting room while in your meeting - more info
- Stop participants' video: This will turn off the video feed from all participants - more info
- Remove participants: This will remove any selected participants from your meeting - more info
- Disable screen sharing: This will remove the ability for participants to share their screen in your Zoom connection - more info
- Hide profile pictures: This will hide the profile pictures of all participants in your meeting - more info
- Disable chat: You can turn the chat off for all participants, o adjust who they can contact via chat - more info
- Remove ability to change name: This will prohibit participants from changing their profile name once in the meeting - more info
- Suspend All Activities: This feature will immediate stop all audio, video, screen sharing and locks your meeting. This is the quickest way to recover your meeting after a Zoombombing.
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Additional Zoom Security Video Tutorials
- Scheduling a Zoom Meeting - Security Settings (01:58)
- This video provides best practices that hosts should follow before the meeting even starts. Hosts can set passcodes, create waiting rooms and/or require users to authenticate before joining to improve security.
- Zoom In Meeting Security Settings (02:07)
- This video reviews the different options available to hosts and co-hosts within a Zoom meeting. It also provides instruction on adding or restricting participant permissions, removing participants from the meeting and explains how to suspend the meeting in case of Zoombombing.
- Additional In-Meeting Security Settings in Zoom (02:56)
- This video provides a more in-depth view of in meeting security settings. Topics include restricting meeting chat, how to mute or rename specific participants and additional screen sharing options like screen annotation.