• 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 ensure 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

• 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, or 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 immediately stop all audio, video, and screen sharing and lock your meeting. This is the quickest way to recover your meeting after a Zoombombing.
  

• 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.