RingCentral Meetings Security Features for Preventing Meeting Abuse
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Allow Hosts to put attendees on hold
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IT admins can allow their hosts to put attendees on hold. This will empower hosts to remove an unwelcome guest out of the meeting. 
Only signed-in users can join meetings
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If enabled, only users who are signed into RingCentral Meetings can join the meetings. This will prevent guests (wanted or unwanted) from joining the meeting, unless they have signed in. 
For Meeting Hosts
Waiting Rooms
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When enabled, Participants cannot join a meeting until the Host admits them individually or admits all of them from the Waiting Room. •
Hosts can: - Click “Admit” to let in the new Participant immediately.
- Click “See waiting room” to open the “Manage Participants” window.
- Can let all the Participants in by clicking “Admit All”.
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Meeting Passwords
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When you set up a meeting password in RingCentral Meetings, all participants will be required to enter the password before they can join the meeting. •
Passwords can be set up for both scheduled meetings and for Personal Meeting IDs. -
Click Schedule.
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Require meeting password when scheduling new meetings. 
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Lock Meeting
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Hosts can lock a meeting to prevent any new attendees from joining the meeting anymore. - Click the
More
drop-down (lower right) and then Lock Meeting
. When you lock an in-progress RingCentral Meeting, no new participants can join, even with a meeting ID and password. 
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When a meeting is successfully locked, “Meeting Locked” is displayed on the top bar. 
Remove an Attendee from a Meeting
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Hosts can remove any attendee from a Meeting by following these steps: -
Select the
Participants
button on the toolbar, then perform the following actions to manage uninvited guests: - Hover
your cursor over the unwanted individual's name. Click the More
drop-down and then Remove. Control who enters your meeting
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Avoid using your Personal Meeting ID to host public events •
Enable a password for the meeting •
Enable waiting room feature •
Enable the only-signed in users can join meetings setting •
Disable “Allow Removed Participants to Rejoin” so booted attendees can’t slip back Activate visual and/or audio indicators when guests join your meeting
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Enable identification of guest participants feature •
Enable play sound when participants join or leave Prevent attendees from joining before the host joins
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Disable join before host •
Enable “Co-Host” so you can assign others to help moderate Have every participant join into a Virtual Lobby
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So that you (the host) can approve each attendee to proceed into the meeting •
Enable Waiting Room feature •
Alert if someone has joined my meeting when I'm not yet in the meeting •
Enable the feature to notify hosts when participants join before them Prevent confidential data from leaking
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Anyone publicly sharing the links where they could be discovered by trolls, e.g. on Twitter, should change Screen-sharing to “Host Only” before a call starts or as soon as they see the feature being abused. 
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For IT Admins
For Meeting Hosts