Common Zoom Security Settings You Should Check

With video conferencing tools seeing a huge surge in use this year, uninvited attendees crashing meetings — sometimes called "zoombombing" — has become a real nuisance for businesses hosting public or loosely-shared meeting links. A few settings changes largely eliminate the problem.

Enable a waiting room so you can approve attendees before they join, and require a meeting password for anything beyond a fully public webinar. Avoid reusing the same static meeting link indefinitely for sensitive discussions — generate a new one for important meetings instead.

It's also worth disabling screen sharing for anyone other than the host by default, only enabling it for a specific participant when they actually need to present, which prevents an uninvited guest from taking over the shared screen.