Best Practices for Securing a Zoom Meeting

By May 2013, Zoom had 1 million participants.3 Zoom offers a free basic meeting plan, which allows users to host up to 100 participants with unlimited one-on-one meetings and unlimited group meetings of up to 40 minutes.4 Many educational facilities use the Zoom platform because for K–12 schools affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom is offering the basic meeting plan for free and removing the 40. [...] The co-hosts will be able to control the situation if anyone hijacks the controls of the original host. [...] If using Zoom to make a recording of the meeting, rename the recording. [...] 14 An easy way to check a URL is to hover over the URL in the email. [...] Make sure the hyperlink is actually going to a Zoom meeting URL and not redirecting to a malicious website.