![]() ![]() The host can let everyone in one by one when they are ready to start the meeting. When someone joins a meeting, they’re automatically moved into a digital room. It’s similar to a waiting room at your doctor’s office. Use Zoom’s waiting room featureĪnother easy tactic is to turn on Zoom’s new waiting room feature. Requiring people to log in before joining your call is an easy way to dissuade people from Zoombombing your call. It’s free to create a Zoom account (and only takes a minute). If you only do one thing from this list, do this one. Require all people to log in before joining a call Just like you wouldn’t share your phone number or credit card information all over social media, you shouldn’t share your PMI either.Īfter all, the more people who have access to it, the more likely your account will be compromised. When you give it out, anyone can use it to log into your meeting room. Your Zoom Personal Meeting ID (aka PMI) is basically the equivalent of your phone number. How do you protect your account from Zoombombing? We share several tips and best practices below. It’s basically the video call equivalent of prank calling - only with criminal consequences. Zoombombing is when a random stranger or strangers take over a video call, often by shouting into the camera, taking over the screen, or posting offensive things. In this post, we’re going to examine what Zoombombing is along with several ways you can secure your account. ![]() Zoom is now playing catch-up to patch a bunch of security issues and vulnerabilities, including Zoombombing. When things grow that quickly, and so many new use cases emerge, some things are bound to go awry. That’s incredible when you consider that this video conferencing tool was once used solely to conduct meetings between employees and is now being used by friends for virtual happy hours, elementary school teachers to host virtual classes, and grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic. To put this growth into context, Zoom now has more daily active users than Twitter (145 million) and Reddit (11 million) combined. But this exponential growth happened to Zoom from December 2019 to March 2020. ![]() It’s not every day that a company grows from 10 million daily users to 200 million daily users seemingly overnight. ![]()
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