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The video conferencing platform Zoom today announced an update to encryption capabilities in its app to better protect meeting data and provide fraud resistance. The new version of the application, 5.0 Zoom, is now available with almost all features, the company said in a statement. 4q605k
A Zoom, which grew from 10 million to 200 million daily s in less than three months, faced backlash from s after security experts found flaws in the platform and the company did not disclose that the service did not offer end-to-end encryption. After this discovery, the company committed to solving the data security issues on a 90-day plan, and is now showing the first results.
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O 5.0 Zoom is the first step within the company's 90-day plan, which will include for encryption AES 256-bit GCN to increase data security in conferences, as well as against data manipulation by third parties.
“I am proud to have reached this stage of our 90-day plan, but this is just the beginning. We build our business by delivering happiness to our customers. We will earn the trust of our customers and offer them a more secure and dynamic platform”
said Eric S. Yuan, CEO of Zoom.
According to O of the company, Oded Gal, holistic assessments were made on privacy and platform security. “From our network to our feature set and experience, everything is coming under rigorous scrutiny,” says Gal. See the new features for the platform below.
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The implementation of encryption AES 256-bit GCM will allow an increase in the security of data transmitted during conferences, as well as increased protection against data manipulation, guaranteeing confidentiality and integrity for Zoom meeting, Webinar Video Zoom e zoom Phone. for GCM encryption begins May 30, and will take effect once all s are enabled for the new encryption.
For s and paid plan s, it is also possible to control the routing of call data, by geographic region. This means that you will be able to choose which servers, according to the geographic region, your conferences can travel through.
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O 5.0 Zoom will include more controls for the during video calls. The new icon of Safety (Security) will provide quick access to the application's security features directly from the in-call menu bar. Call hosts will also be able to report s directly through the Security icon.
As Waiting Rooms (Waiting Room) were a feature that already existed on the platform, where s waited until the conference started – like an office waiting room. They were previously optional, and are now a default setting (can be turned off) for Basic, Pro individual and Education s.
As access s are now required by default for Basic, Pro Individual and Education s. Corporate s can define the complexity of the s for the conferences, and the length of the PIN to access the voice messages in the zoom Phone.
Now it will also be possible to configure the notifications of the zoom-chat to not show the content of messages, and during conferences the caller ID and option to invite participants was moved from the main interface of Zoom to the Participants menu, making it difficult to accidentally share the caller ID.
O 5.0 Zoom is now available with most of the announced features, and can be ed from company website. If you already have the program installed, the update to the new version can also be done through the program itself.
Source: Zoom
