Something I didn’t even understand until recently: On Zoom, your Personal Meeting ID is essentially an ongoing meeting. If you fail to secure your online meeting with a password, anyone who manages to get their hands on the meeting link will be able to get in.Īdditionally, it’s a good idea to change the password for each meeting, just in case one password gets compromised. If your web conferencing app has a password-protected meetings feature, use it.

Add as many steps as possible to ensure only the right people get in.

Yes, passwords seem like one extra, inconvenient step to gaining access to a meeting-and that’s precisely the point. Secure your meetings with a password too. Make sure the password to your Skype, Zoom, Teams, or other conferencing app is strong.

Secure your conferencing app with a strong password.ĭon’t choose a password that’s easy for someone to guess-that’s an easy way to get hacked. Additionally, make sure you are in a location where the people who live with you can’t see your computer screen or overhear what you’re talking about during work meetings. To prevent eavesdropping, be sure to wear a headset or earphones when you take calls. This is especially true if you work in sectors like healthcare or financial services, where revealing certain protected information (even unwittingly) to outsiders might have legal consequences. Whether they mean to or not, your spouse, children, or roommates might overhear your online meeting conversations that contain protected information. Don’t be so concerned about anonymous Internet intruders that you overlook the people inside your own home.

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