Managing security during your meeting - Zoom Tutorial

- [Instructor] One of the paramount concerns that everyone has when it comes to leading virtual calls via Zoom is of course, security. You want to ensure that the right people can join your call with ease, but also ensure that the wrong people cannot access your meeting. Once you are inside a Zoom call, here are the main settings to pay attention to that will ensure you and your participants are chatting privately and securely. The number one tab that I want to draw your attention to is the security tab. If I click on this, these should be the default settings. The waiting room is enabled, you should be able to allow your participants to share their screen, chat, rename themselves. I'm not going to go into these three features in this lesson. What I want to talk about is the waiting room feature and the lock meeting feature. By default, this should be on but let's say, for example, that it isn't. I want to demonstrate what this looks like when the waiting room is not enabled. We're going to go ahead and we're going to connect to my friend Bobby. - Hey Zack. - [Zack] Whoa dude, I wasn't quite ready for our call yet. I was just getting some notes setup. Oh, you know what happened? I forgot to enable the waiting room feature. Hold on a second. Security. I disabled the waiting room feature, I really apologize. Gimme a couple of minutes, I'm not quite ready for our meeting. Go ahead and use the same link and connect with me in a couple minutes, okay? Cool. Thanks so much, appreciate it. So you see what happened when I don't have the waiting room enabled, anybody with my link can pop in and join at anytime. Now we're going to go to security and we're going to enable the waiting room and we're going to see what the difference is. This time I have the option to either admit Bobby or I can put him into the waiting room and I can see who else is in my waiting room. So let's see who is in the waiting room. As we can see, it's obviously just one person. And if you have multiple participants, you'll also have the option up here to admit all or remove all simultaneously. So let's go ahead and let's admit, Bobby, into our meeting now that the timing is right. Bobby, your timing was way better this time. I really appreciate it. I am ready to go for a call. Did you have a rough weird experience in the waiting room or did you feel like we were getting ready to go you just had to kind of chill out for a moment or two? - A lot for a second. - All right, fantastic. Well, that's good. So now that we are in our meeting, I want to ensure that nobody else pops in unexpectedly. First of all, want to make sure that, of course, enable waiting room is checked, which it is. Just to be doubly secure, even if somebody does want to join the waiting room but I don't want to be interrupted, I'm going to choose lock meeting. So it says, "You have locked the meeting. "Nobody else can join." That means that somebody can't even get into the waiting room and when they click on the link, it's going to to say, "You have been locked out of this meeting." So now we have a private, secure conversation. Nobody can interrupt us no matter what. So, Bobbie, I appreciate you helping me demonstrate the waiting room feature. I'll see you in the next one. Now that you understand how to enable and disable the waiting room right from inside your Zoom calls as well as lock your meetings so no unauthorized participants can join, you are ready to conduct secure and worry free Zoom calls.