Zoom Security Measures and Levels of Protection

What Are the Best Cybersecurity Practices for Protecting Your Zoom Data?

Sound Notifications

• Enable sound notifications to alert when attendees join meetings

Waiting Rooms

• Configure approval settings for attendees

• Use whitelisted domains to bypass waiting rooms and allow direct meeting access

Screen Sharing

• Limit screen sharing to specific applications vs. entire desktops to prevent accidental data disclosures

Meeting Room Settings

• Don't allow attendees to join a meeting before the host

• Disable file transfers between attendees to prevent spreading malicious content

User Access

• Require users to register with their e-mail, name, security questions, and meeting password

Chat and Voice Settings

• Disable meeting chats to prevent users from saving private conversations

• Mute/unmute all participants with the click of a button

Meeting IDs

• For public meetings, use randomly generated meeting IDs to ensure only invited attendees can join

What Are the Top Security Recommendations for Registered Zoom Hosts?

Utilize Strong Passwords

• Password length of 10-12 characters & special symbols

• Require new users to change password upon first sign-in

• Utilize enhanced weak password detection

• Prevent users from reusing passwords

• No consecutive characters (ex. 1234)

• Set passwords to automatically expire

Virtual Background

• Account owners and admins can enable and disable virtual backgrounds in the Zoom web portal for all users on their account

Encryption and Updates

• Zoom provides end-to-end encryption, which can be configured at the account, group, and user levels

• To ensure encryption, update your Zoom Desktop Client or utilize the Zoom Web Client