Yes, you heard it right. The extensively popular video conferencing service can now notify the meeting organizers if their meeting ID is publicly visible. Zoom has announced two new security features with the help of which the hosts will know if in case their meeting is at the stake of being attacked.
Zoom’s newly introduced security moves will help the organizers remove intruders if one tries to enter the meeting. No doubt, the opportunities related to the so-called “Zoombombing” attacks will get prevented by these new features. The features introduced on Zoom will allow the hosts to remove the disruptive participants by pausing the meeting. The organizer can remove the participants by clicking the “Suspend Participant Activities.” This will cease all the features of the meeting for that particular participant, including recording, Breakout Rooms, screen sharing, and more.
All in all, these features deal with the reporting of the relevant users. Those participants will not be able to access the meeting any further, and the Trust and Safety team of Zoom will be sent a notice regarding this activity. The host can then resume the meeting with the remaining participants, and all the relevant features will get re-enabled again. The same can be done by the meeting participants. They, too, can report the disruptive users by pressing the security badge on the upper-left side of the screen.
Alongside this new feature, Zoom also gave hints regarding the internal tool used by zoom itself to prevent the meetings from getting disrupted. Zoom’s internal tool – the “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” helps in scanning the online activities and posts of social media to find links of the shared meeting of Zoom.
The host immediately receives mail in case a link is found. The organizer gets notified that it’s time to enable the settings related to higher security, create a new meeting id, or even use a different platform for video conferencing.
Once informed about the risks, Zoom leaves the decision to the meeting organizer. It depends on the user whether he wants to take action or not; however, the meeting ID, which can be accessed publicly, can attract various disruptors.
Conclusion
So, this was all about the latest features by Zoom. These features can easily identify the risks during a conference and inform the users about them. The host will get notified immediately if their organized meeting is at the stake of being accessed publicly by the attackers.
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