Web conferencing is an Internet-based application and therefore needs secure remote support.



For secure web conferencing applications, transmission security is easily maintained by using the popular SSL - Secure Socket Layers and encryption together with each vendor's proprietary encryption. The transmission of user and meeting passwords and meeting IDs over the Internet is always as SSL encrypted. This is for the safety and security of the participants.

Access security is the weakest security point in web conferencing. Every web conferencing system today uses meeting IDs and/or passwords as simple access security measures to protect web meetings from unwanted attendance. Although, the problem is that meeting IDs and passwords are usually e-mailed to attendees before the scheduled meeting begins. This process compromises access security easily. Your computer screen may be captured within seconds once a hacker accesses by interception or guesses your meeting ID or password. It is usually too late to close your meeting once you realize you have been hacked and have unwanted guests at your web conferencing meeting.

The best way to checked against security breaches as described above is to use an on-site solution where your firewall is used to protect your meetings. Some web conferencing applications to not allow you to use your firewall while implementing a web conferencing secure remote support. However, the RHUB web conferencing applications allow secure remote support through the use of firewalls and they are the most affordable and easiest applications for the most sensitive of materials. With all of the RHUB applications, there is no need to shut down your firewall and allow unwanted guests or viruses into your computers mainframe system. Each of these RHUB remote security support applications work with or without a firewall.

There are about three typical ways to secure web conferencing: outside the firewall for external meetings only; DMZ - demilitarized zone - for both internal and external meetings and behind the firewall for internal meetings only. Both behind the firewall and the DMZ deployment are strong security measures. Almost every router including those for home use has available the DMZ security. DMZ deployment allows for flexibility, providing both internal (behind a firewall) and external (outside the firewall) participants to join the meeting. When you start the meeting, as the host, you simply check on an option to tell the system that this meeting is for internal attendees only. The RHUB TurboMeeting-200 web conferencing appliance will reject any attendee who comes from outside your firewall.

There is also a hybrid mode, where interactive attendees (meeting panelists) mixed with view-only attendees for the best user performance and experience. This means that view-only attendees would not be able to participate with any input in the web conferencing; however they would be able to listen in and view what was going on on the screen for training purposes.