Sensitive emails could pop into your inbox or that embarrassing notification that pops up while your mid-presentation from your wife, kids or colleague! It’s safer to only share the application window that contains the items you want to share, this prevents everyone from seeing anything else.įor people outside of your domain, you can activate a waiting room so no one can just jump into your meeting uninvited.
Don’t share your full desktop when sharing content.Īs with any screen sharing application, showing your full desktop when on a call has its risks.
It is good practice to check your settings to ensure that every time a meeting is started it automatically adds a password.Ĥ. Up until recently, passwords were not automatically turned on meaning you could fire up a meeting with no password quite easily. Generating a new unique user ID each time is much safer as it limits the possibility of someone else guessing the nine to 11 digit number. If for some reason, someone were to guess your ID (or save it and accidentally click on the meeting link), there is the danger that they could jump into a meeting you have in progress. Your personal ID is fixed and doesn’t change unless you manually do so. We’d suggest that you don’t use your personal meeting ID and to always create a new unique ID for each new meeting. When creating a meeting in Zoom, you are given two options: To improve security Zoom have been releasing a lot of new features recently to minimise the risk of any unwanted activity on your calls. Make sure you are using the most up-to-date version!Īs with any software, keeping up-to-date with releases is essential to ensure that you are using the most stable and secure version. Unfortunately, there have been a number of articles lately that have highlighted some security issues, but Zoom continuously works hard to improve and release updates quickly and effectively.Īs long term users of Zoom, I thought it might be useful to share some hints and tips to help you keep your calls and your account as secure as possible:ġ. We’ve found Zoom to be by far the highest quality and most stable platform we’ve used.(and we’ve trialled a fair few!). Over the years we’ve used a number of different platforms, focussing on Zoom around three years ago. It’s become a valuable business tool that we can’t do without.Īudio conferencing has its place, but adding video just gives that extra level of personalization which hearing a voice or replying to a Slack message can’t ever provide. The majority of Cogworks team have been working remotely for a long time now and video conferencing has been an essential part of our daily working lives.
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