Zoom “Posture Monitoring” might conjure up Orwellian images of health and safety officers surveilling staff via their webcams, lest they slump off their chairs.

But posture monitoring has nothing to do with staff surveillance. Instead, it refers to Zoom settings and how they change (or “drift”) over time.

That’s important. The wrong Zoom settings can lay businesses open to severe security and regulatory vulnerabilities – and multimillion dollar compliance fines for some. Certain well-known, long-established Wall Street institutions were fined $200m recently for financial regulatory breaches caused by inappropriate UC usage.

Worryingly, “Zoom Drift” is hard to detect

Zoom provides powerful insights and flexibility into its settings management. But changes to how settings are configured over time are not tracked. Nor can administrators view settings easily and correlate them to likely future risky behaviours.

So, Zoom settings configurations drift.

Just a simple software update may inadvertently switch off automatic call recording or allow unknown users to join Zoom calls without 2FA.

How Theta Lake’s Zoom Meetings Risk Manager helps

AI powered UC regulatory compliance platform, Theta Lake, has a crucial shareholder: Zoom. The resultant relationship has enabled deep collaboration between the two businesses.

The upshot is that Zoom Administrators can sleep more easily at night, because Theta Lake Zoom Meetings Risk Manager provides: –

  • Continuous security posture monitoring to easily discover all Zoom settings, receive recommended security configurations and track and report when settings are changed or poorly configured.
  • Configuration drift management to track and report how and when configurations change over time, forewarning any negative correlation and potential downstream security or compliance risks.
  • New feature impact assessment to notify admins when new Zoom features are rolled out. In a few clicks settings can be updated and security maintained.
  • Troubleshooting and remediation recommendations for each discovered risk. This includes security setting updates, policy drift corrections, and suggested training for risk-prone users.
  • Real-time risk monitoring and alerts of risky meeting activities and inappropriate data sharing.
  • Risk correlation reporting, providing visibility of Zoom settings in relation to meeting behavior. For example, highlighting screen sharing when appropriate security permissions are not set. Accordingly, current Zoom settings are correlated with future meeting risks. Concerns can be escalated with one click.
  • Deeper Security and Compliance Surveillance, through Theta Lake’s additional modules. What is shared, shown, spoken, typed or transferred in unified communications across video, voice and chat can be investigated , supervised and retained.

As Oisín Patenall, Theta Lake’s Product Manager for MRM explains “Through simple-to-use, clear dashboards and visualizations with continuous Zoom posture monitoring, Meetings Risk Manager easily discovers all Zoom settings relevant to your business. Admins receive recommended security configurations and can track, report on, and remediate when settings are changed or poorly configured. All without having to worry about additional data archiving and meeting recordings.”

Click here to know more about Theta Lake’s Zoom Meeting’s Risk Manager and how to download it.

 

 

 



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