Security News > 2020 > July > Zoom Got Big Fast. Then Videobombers Made It Rework Security
Just as quickly as Zoom became a household name for connecting work colleagues, church and school groups, friends, family, book clubs and others during stay-at-home lockdowns, it also gained a reputation for lax security as intrusive "Videobombers" barged into private meetings or just spied on intimate conversations.
The work on "Security and privacy is never going to be done, but it is now embedded in how we approach everything we do at Zoom now," the company's chief financial officer, Kelly Steckelberg, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
Zoom hailed some of the strides that it says it has made in a Wednesday blog post.
The Zoom CEO has said he wanted to limit the use of end-to-end encryption so that the company could continue to work with law enforcement; the company later said he was referring to efforts intended to prevent Zoom from being used for child pornography.
In a familiar refrain among tech companies operating around the world, Steckelberg said Zoom complies with local laws in each of the more than 80 countries where its service is used.