| Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Zoom has become a service that plays an important role in our day-to-day professional lives. One big problem that still occurs is called "Zoom Bombing." This is when someone gets into your Zoom call uninvited and makes a disturbance. How inappropriate they can get only depends on how far their imagination can go. There are a few easy tricks and changes you can make to help prevent this kind of thing from happening, and keep your meetings at peace.
1. Enable Security Settings on Zoom.Us
- If you do not have a Zoom account, sign up for one so you can adjust security settings.
2. Enable Waiting Room
- You can customize this waiting room any way you see fit for those waiting to join the meeting.
3. Require Passcodes
- If you go down the list in the security settings, you should find a switch to turn on passcode requirements. You can also make it so that those with the link can join without a passcode by turning on "Embed passcode in invite link for one-click join." That way, those with the link can just hop in right away, and those intruders without a link are left locked out.
4. Control Your Personal Meeting ID
- If you have a Zoom account, you have a Personal Meeting ID that is exclusive to you. Keep this between you and your colleagues. Otherwise, a randomly generated one will be more safe for those meetings with larger groups.
5. Control Your Participants
- In the settings, you can control who can share and who can annotate.
6. Enable Co-Hosts
- Flipping this switch will allow the host to add co-hosts that have the same controls in the meeting. This can help with figuring things out if chaos ensues in your meeting.
7. Verify Security Once You Start the Meeting
- Your general security settings will work on all of your meetings, but there are certain settings you can still change once your meeting is started. Options are more limited, but it can be helpful.
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