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How to Secure Your Zoom Online Meetings

Following my article on How to Use Zoom Effectively, plus recent news on Zoom security flaws, there are 7 ways that anyone can secure their Zoom meetings.  Understand that security flaws in Zoom are also present in other platforms including Skype.  My personal experience is that after installing and following these 7 features, your Zoom meetings will be much safer and you'll have a piece of that peace of mind.  The 7 things to do include:
  1. Set a unique meeting password that is not the one that you have used before.  Only inform your users 5 to 10 minutes before your meeting start time
  2. Enable the waiting room feature.  This allows you the host to see the people trying to enter the meeting before allowing them access
  3. Lock your meeting to disallow anyone from entering once your meeting starts, or 5 to 10 minutes after your meeting starts.  To do so, click the 'manage participants' at the bottom of the screen on Zoom
  4. Disable the option for others to join the meeting before the host does. They just have to wait for the host to start the meeting. In the meantime, they can test their video and audio on Zoom.
  5. Disable screen sharing for non-hosts 
  6. Require people to pre-register for the meeting and do not allow 'walk' ins' at all
  7. Require all participants to open up their video and reveal their real names once they are inside Zoom. If not, remove them immediately.  Set the setting to disallow removed people to re-enter the meeting
I believe that when you have the above secure features, your Zoom meetings will be safe and sound.  Happy zooming everyone (from home)!  Related articles:
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  2. How to Convert Your Work from Offline to Online in 5 Ways https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-convet-your-work-from-offline-to.html
  3. More deadly than COVID-19 virus is this P https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/procrastination-and-covid-19-which-is.html
  4. 5 Things That Will Change Totally After COVID-19 and Lockdown https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/5-things-that-will-change-forever-after.html
  5. Zoom is a Fad and Will NOT be used once the lockdown is Over, So Don't Bother about Zoom https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/zoom-is-fad-it-is-not-secure-thats-why.html
  6. How My Business Cope with No Business Now at https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-my-business-cope-with-covid-19.html
  7. 31 Reasons to not use WeChat at https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/03/31-reasons-to-use-wechat.html
  8. Are you the Good or Bad Quality People in this COVID-19 lockdown? https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-and-b-people-from-covid-19.html
  9. How low will the stock market go?  https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-low-will-stock-markets-go.html
  10. This WeChat book has no content! https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/01/table-of-contents-for-wechat-marketing.html
  11. Your mobile number is not important as no one remembers it https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2019/11/everybody-who-is-anybody-has-mobile.html
  12. WeChat is a Big SCAM https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2019/11/wechat-is-cheat-how-singapore-people.html
  13. 13 Ways to Advertise on WeChat https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-13-ways-to-advertise-on-wechat.html
  14. Switch and Save: How Much can you REALLY SAVE? https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2018/10/singapore-open-electricity-market-how.html
  15. Work From Home 5 Things to Watch our for https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/work-from-home-5-things-to-watch-out-for.html 
  16. Dealing with Stress from COVID-19 https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/dealing-with-stress-from-covid-19.html
  17. How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-secure-your-zoom-online-meetings.html
  18. Further 5 Things that Will Change Post COVID-19 Pandemic https://andyngtrainer.blogspot.com/2020/04/further-5-things-that-will-change-once.html
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