Zoom Best Security Practices

FOUR ZOOM BEST PRACTICES

• Keep your Zoom session information private and only share with participants. Do not post your Zoom session information on social media
• Keep your work Zoom and person Zoom accounts separate and do not link them
• Adjust meeting default settings: Recurring? Record automatically? Waiting room? etc.
• Avoid using Zoom to discuss confidential or sensitive matters
• Avoid sharing private or sensitive data on Zoom

CONFIGURATION OF YOUR ZOOM ACCOUNT ACCOUNT BY CONTACT NORTH | CONTACT NORD

Contact North | Contact Nord configured your Zoom account to enable you to make use of Zoom's security options

1. When scheduling a session through the Zoom client or Outlook add-in (click the title to link to Zoom’s website for further information and instructions on using the feature):
   • Use a random meeting ID for scheduled or instant meetings
     • Your account settings are set to usea random meeting ID for both a scheduled and instant meetings
   • Set a password to access your sessions
     • Your account settings are set to not require a password for a scheduled or instant meeting
     • You can set a password for your sessions, either using a random password assigned by Zoom or setting their own passwords
   • Enable a waiting room
     • You can enable this feature for your sessions
   • Enable join before host
     • Your account settings are set to enable this feature
     • You can disable this feature for your sessions


2. Security options available once a session starts (click the title to link to Zoom's website for further information and instructions on using the feature):
   • Lock your session
     • You can lock your session once all participants enter the room
     • In the participant pop-up, click the button Lock Meeting (click on more to access)
   • Screen sharing
     • Your account settings are set to allow screen sharing by host only
     • To allow participants to share their screen, host must allow screen sharing in the host controls
   • Remove a participant 
     • Your account settings are set to allow the removal of a participant during a session
     • A host can remove a participant from the session and the participant cannot return to the session  

ZOOM BLOG

Check out Zoom's blog on best practices for securing your virtual classroom at https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/best-practices-for-securing-your-virtual-classroom/

ZOOM ENCRYPTION

Zoom confirmed it provides encryption on Zoom sessions. In a blog post on April 1,2020, Zoom stated:

"To be clear, in a meeting where all of the participants are using Zoom clients, and the meeting is not being recorded, we encrypt all video, audio, screen sharing, and chat content at the sending client, and do not decrypt it at any point before it reaches the receiving clients.”

A Zoom "client" includes a laptop, computer or smartphone using the Zoom app