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As of March 17th, a survey of global HR executives shows that 88% of organizations have encouraged or required their employees to work from home.(1)

Zoom's video conferencing application has seen widespread adoption at an unprecedented rate, with reported revenue increase of 78 percent. Zoom's stock(NASDAQ: ZM) price has soared, peaking at a 100 dollar per share increase from December 27th, 2019, the day that a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of illness in for a patient in China.

Since then Zoom has been the darling of Tech Media and the most touted success story in Business Media during the pandemic. Until Yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon, articles started appearing with a new term: "Zoombombing", or when uninvited guests join unsecured meetings and disrupt the meeting. By this morning a tidal wave of articles decrying the evils and peril of using Zoom, their security practices, and allegations of being hacked have appeared.

Despite the allegations Zoom, is the tool of choice for virtual meetings for a reason. It has great features, it's easy to use, and has highly configurable meeting settings. 

View the Zoom Meeting Security Best Practices below. Using these techniques or a combination thereof will keep your meeting secure. Remember, the incidences that are behind the avalanche of bad press for Zoom are for unsecured meetings.

The CCSQ LACE wishes you Happy Zooming! 


(1) Gartner, Inc. survey of 800 global human resources (HR) executives

Can Prevent Zoombombing





First and foremost, don't post meeting information on social media or other public websites. 

  1. Don't share your account information
  2. Create a unique meeting ID for each meeting
  3. When creating a new meeting, select join by computer in the audio settings
  4. If allowing join by phone, or require dial in participants to use their attendee ID when calling in. Not only will this make your meeting more secure, but you also know who is talking.
  5. Create an access code for you meeting. In your meeting invitation, include the access code.
  6. Create a lobby for your meeting in the Advanced Options section . When someone joins your meeting, either you or a co-host will have to admit them to the meeting.
  7. Enable "Only authenticated users can join." This forces users to have a zoom account. Then you know who is in your meeting.
  8. Lock your meetings. Once all of your expected attendees have arrived, you can lock your meeting by opening the attendees panel, and clicking "More" in the lower right corner. The last option in the "More" menu is "Lock Meeting"

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