Security News > 2020 > November > How to secure your Zoom account with two-factor authentication
Follow these steps to better protect your Zoom account with a second layer of authentication.
Zoom now provides an extra level of security to your account with two-factor authentication.
Zoom recommends these three apps: Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, FreeOTP. Your best and safest option is to download and install one of the supported third-party authenticator apps on your phone; receiving codes via SMS is a less secure method of 2FA because the codes can be intercepted.
After you set up 2FA, the authentication method you chose will work with the Zoom web client, the desktop clients, and the mobile apps.
If you administer a paid version of Zoom for employees at your organization, you can turn on 2FA for your users, and each user then has to enable the specific method of authentication.