UFIT has provided a Keep Zoom Secure website that provides best practices and setup guides for faculty, staff, and students using Zoom.us. The basic tips include:

• Generate a new meeting ID for each meeting (do not use personal rooms)
• Set a password for the meeting
• Disable join before host
• Enable Waiting Rooms to monitor entrants
• Prevent attendees from obscuring their identity (do not allow renaming)
• Turn off file transfer options
• Disable the virtual background
• Disable private chat
• Begin your sessions by limiting screen sharing to the host only
• Lock your session after it has started to prevent new users from joining
• Mute participants upon entry
• Disable annotations
• Don’t post your personal meeting ID on any public forums

One of the more important aspects to keeping Zoom secure is making sure you are always running the current version of the client.