Securing Zoom from the client

All the additional security features until now have been set from the Zoom portal. There are many additional in-meeting features that you can utilize directly from the Zoom client in real time during your meetings and webinars.

How to do it…

1. Start or join any Zoom meeting/webinar as the host.
2. As a host, you will have control of your attendees with several Zoom security features. Click the Participants icon in your meeting control bar. All participants in your meeting will appear in the Participants window to the right of your video feed (Note: Webinars will have attendees, panelists, and/or co-hosts):

Figure 8.14: Participants icon

3. Now, you can hover over any participant and control their audio by muting them. Hosts cannot unmute someone, only mute. For example, there might be a situation during a meeting where an attendee might be saying something controversial or inappropriate that you don...