Personally, I kind of love the software and service, and prefer it over every other video conferencing solution I've had my hands on, pretty much ever.

You can judge Zoom on its response to security issues, more so than on the security issues themselves, within reason.īefore we jump into the issues, a bit of full disclosure: Rapid7 is a happy Zoom customer, and has been for a while now. The engineers, marketers, and leadership at Zoom are neither dumb nor evil. Some of those bugs are security-relevant. But, if you don't have time to get into it, the TL DR summary is best summed up as: Because of this, I wanted to take a little bit of your time-and mine-to discuss the Zoom-related scuttlebutt that has surfaced over the past few days.

Turns out, all this recent success has painted a huge target on Zoom's back, and people are falling all over themselves every time a new security issue is discovered in the platform, no matter how minor. Today, it's a household name beyond airport billboards as apparently everyone has been transformed into consumers and fans while we're all steering clear of other humans. Thanks to its insanely easy-to-use cross-platform video conferencing service, Zoom was a successful B2B company well before the pandemic. As a result, Zoom's stock price hit an all-time high in mid-March (despite the stock market being depressed overall), trading on massive volume and suddenly seeing a PE ratio well north of 1500x. Wow, this past week has been a pretty long year for Zoom.Īs the COVID-19 global pandemic moved the whole knowledge-working world abruptly to work-from-home, virtual meetings are rapidly becoming de rigueur for pretty much everyone I know.

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