An Additional Layer of Security
Zoom has long been criticized for various reasons, especially for its platform security. It’s alleged for sharing data with Facebook and vulnerabilities that let hackers sell tricks to hack Zoom in the dark web. This led many countries including India to declare using unsafe, and some like Facebook and Reliance’s Jio have even introduced their own video conferencing platforms. Though it’s dealing with all such allegations and competition, Zoom managed to thrive in the lockdown times, and grown multifold will over $35 billion in value. The changes it made to its security and platform features are the ones drove its growth, and confidence in users. These include introducing end-to-end encryption for video calls in June, and now – Two-factor authentication (2FA). Under this, Zoom lets users set an extra layer of security by adding 2FA in the Settings. This helps to reduce the account takeovers by any unauthorized people. This works by Zoom sending you an OTP via SMS or phone call or taken from a third-party authenticator app like Google’s, Microsoft, etc. This should be entered in the next step of lodging credentials in login fields.
Steps to Enable 2FA in Zoom
