Zoom has promised a 90-day outage to address privacy and security concerns, and the company is implementing some of these promises. A new Zoom 5.0 update has been released to address many of the complaints Zoom has faced in recent weeks. With this new update, there is a security icon that groups the security features of multiple Zooms. You can use it to quickly lock meetings, remove participants, and limit screen sharing and chat in meetings.
In addition, Zoom currently uses passwords by default for most customers, and IT administrators can define the password complexity of Zoom business users. Zoom's waiting room functionality for Basic, Single License Pro and Training Accounts is also turned on by default. This feature allows hosts to keep participants in a virtual meeting room before attending the meeting.
Many of these changes are a clear response to the “Zoombombing” phenomenon where pranksters engage in Zoom calls and broadcast porn or shock videos. Zoom's previous default setting did not recommend setting a meeting password and allowed participants to share their screens.
Zoom is also improving some encryption features and upgrading to the AES 256-bit GCM encryption standard. This is still not the end-to-end encryption that Zoom said wrongly implemented, but it is to improve the transfer of conference data. Business customers can control the area of the data center that will handle meeting traffic for Zoom meetings after concerns have been raised that some meetings are being routed through servers in China.
Zoom is responding quickly to the issues raised, as millions of new users of the service have been introduced during the new Corona Virus epidemic. Zoom again reported up to 10 million daily users in December, but soared to more than 200 million daily meeting participants in March. There are still more issues and improvements to be solved, but 20 days after Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan promised to change, we started to figure out exactly how Zoom is responding.