How to govern Security in Zoom
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Zoom with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Zoom means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Zoom with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory Zoom
Connect Zoom and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in Zoom to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Zoom reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Zoom controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Zoom catalog on the Zoom connector page.
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Meeting reachable without host screening
Meetings without a waiting room admit anyone with the link, raising the likelihood that a weakness is exploited
Severity: High -
Meeting joinable with link alone
Meetings without a passcode are reachable by anyone with the link, raising exploitation likelihood
Severity: High -
Recording publicly reachable
Recordings with a public share URL are reachable by anyone with the link, raising leakage likelihood
Severity: High -
User holds administrative privileges
Admin users have a wide blast radius, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited
Severity: High -
Zoom meetings without password protection
Detects scheduled meetings that do not require a passcode to join
Severity: High -
Zoom meetings without waiting room
Detects meetings where the waiting room feature is disabled
Severity: Medium -
Zoom recordings shared externally
Detects cloud recordings with external/public sharing enabled
Severity: High -
Zoom user disabled in Entra ID
Detects Zoom users whose corresponding Entra ID account is disabled
Severity: Medium -
Zoom account with too many admin users
Detects when more than 5 users have an admin role
Severity: Medium -
Zoom meeting participants by type
Shows the distribution of internal vs external meeting participants
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Zoom users by role
Distribution of Zoom users across Owner, Admin and Member roles
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Meetings without password
Top 10 hosts by count of meetings created without a password
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Shared recordings by host
Top 10 hosts by count of externally shared cloud recordings
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Zoom Admin Users
Shows all users with admin role
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Shared Recordings
Shows recordings with public share URLs
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Zoom Meetings with External Participants
Shows meetings that have external participants
