The SRF Online Meditation Center has enabled default global account settings for our account from our very first inaugural meditation in October 2019. These settings eliminate the concerns regarding a Zoom “bombing” that had been prevalent in the news.
The following settings allow us to have full control over our meetings:
- For all participants, screen sharing and chat are turned off.
- All participants are automatically muted upon entry and cannot unmute themselves.
- Video can be immediately turned off for any participant (they will not be able turn it back on again unless prompted by the host or usher).
- A participant can be removed from the meeting at any time.
In addition, our teams have also instituted two new initiatives within the Online Meditation Center:
- A separate security team has been launched to research and monitor any additional areas that could affect our usage of the platform and to stay in touch regarding Zoom updates.
- In order to monitor the meeting even more closely, co-ushers are now regularly on the schedule for each meditation/study group in addition to the head usher.