Zoom is one video conferencing platform, popularly appeared during the Covid-19 as a golden to meet their beloved respective and friend. Zoom made upright prominence due to Stay Home and users also prosperous satisfaction with Zoom cloud meeting, but it also highlighted; the privacy and security issues and their much more bombing to Zoom such some data are visible on the dark web.
Many countries, institutions, corporations and court meetings and official meeting were connected though the Zoom, but the bombing well affected and provoked; some of them also banned the use of Zoom app and online platform.
Zoom cloud meeting said, they ready to updates and upgrading their privacy and security policy and updated with encryption feature as it also using by WhatsApp and more as it virtuous safeguard to users and they included data routing control, and special security options opens to host controller as well.
Today, Zoom app have 100 plus million downloads in the play store only, 200 million daily users. By the Zoom-bombing; they ready and updated the feature of Zoom, included many interface such as offering password, meeting controlling power to hosts. Zoom added a standard encryption; AES-bit GCM encryption that used by USA government for data security.
New Option “Security” Added for Hosts
This button opens the security and privacy as it allows hosts to manage unauthorized and unknown issues and can remove the participant of moving the cheats and hacks. It also allows the prohibit the renaming and sharing the screen as well. The waiting room also allow to add the appreciate participate only by hosts and it manually let their guest to meeting.
Meeting IDs Will No Longer Be Displayed
As to many issues by social media sharing the zoom meeting ID and some of them cheated or cracked the ID and joined on the meeting without an invitation. For the reason, Zoom will no longer be displayed the meeting ID and instead of ID there will be show “Zoom” only, so you can share it screen to public platform.
Pre Meeting Setting
Zoom says that Zoom keeps the privacy and security of all customer as much with highly available security modes today. There have some guidelines and settings to manage before meeting as it confirming the privacy and security. Waiting room is one of the most ensuring way to not connect uninvited guest and participants to meet and it available on the setting menu and enable by hosts and manage it. Password is other one to power the privacy and it can enable and can change by account owner. Join by domain is one of most secure and running way to keep security that is join by domain. The only authenticated or authorised user can join the meet and must be log in to Zoom account and make sure the email address is approved.
In Meeting Setting
There have more tools in meeting setting such security option in the toolbar, lock the meeting, put participant on hold which help to hold the guest video, audio and more remove participant, report user, disable video, mute participant, turn off file transfer, turn off annotation, disable private chat, he meeting host can turn off screen sharing for participants and recording, don’t allow participant to rename their ID, turn on waiting room.
Privacy and Security
Zoom could meeting have privacy and security certification by some huge security organizations and industries such as Trust Arc certified privacy practices and statements, FedRAMP, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, FERPA and HIPAA, privacy shield certified, SOC 2 and more.
Zoon ensuring some privacy also such they never monitor the meeting and content, they ensured we never sell the data for advertisement and intentions. The two factor authentication by admin and availability of video preview without join on the meeting and participant technical information for admin.