If you usually read technology or cybersecurity news, you will know that the world of information security is full of breaches that sometimes hit businesses and make them lose millions of dollars, with business video conferencing for instance.
You definitely need to invest more of your time to understand how to secure your business digital assets, including your video conferencing system, which help you secure through a number of essential steps that we share in this blog.
Consider replacing your system
If you have a video conferencing system that you suspect is old enough. Then you shouldn’t just ignore this, especially if you are not getting updates for months or years.
What you need to do about this is to consider more secure options. This could mean you need to update your whole system or parts of it, depending on your current state. You may only need to replace your legacy software with a new one. In order to continuously patched and offering high-security standards.
This investment will be little, considering how catastrophic damages a breach could mean for your clients, customers, employees, and partners altogether.
Put a clear video conferencing policy
While most of your video conferencing security focus will be on software and hardware. There is still another part that needs to belong to the humans who will use the video conferencing system, your employees.
Setting a clear and strict video conferencing policy will help in making your employees become more careful and take less risks. This relates to what information to share during video meetings, how to deal with their credentials and other aspects.
Use an encrypted service
Encryption is one of the best features you should consider for your new video conferencing system. You shouldn’t ignore this feature in any way. Both hardware and software need to support encryption to take advantage of it.
The 128-bit advanced Encryption Standard AES will be just enough to go with. This encryption works by encrypting each session when it starts. It makes it impossible to break into them with old ways. Thus, making it as hard as taking a supercomputer with extreme power a billion years to decrypt the key to one session.
Take a domain-based security approach
One of the best practices for making a video conferencing system secure is to take a domain-based approach to permission-based access. Thus, giving you full control over the video conferencing environment.
Domain-based security will enable the system administrator to control access to video conferences through layers of permission.
This means that your whole video conferencing system is not just interconnected. It takes a high-level account that has access to many meetings to get access to your video conferences without permission. Thus, making it much harder for hackers to get inside.
Other mistakes businesses fall into include not setting a firewall for the video conferencing system. Which can make the whole system vulnerable. Also making the system answer incoming calls automatically, making the mission much easier for cybercriminals searching for their next victims.
