Protection of collaboration and communication applications

Zoom, Cisco Webex Meetings, Citrix Workspace, and Microsoft Teams are now widely used for video/web conferencing and communications. The Cyber Protection service allows you to protect your collaboration tools.

The availability of this feature depends on the service quotas that are enabled for your account.

The protection configuration for Zoom, Cisco Webex Meetings, Citrix Workspace, and Microsoft Teams is similar. In the example below, we will consider configuration for Zoom.

To set up Zoom protection

  1. Install the protection agent on the machine where the collaboration application is installed.

  2. Log in to the Cyber Protect console and apply a protection plan that has one of the following modules enabled:

    • Antivirus and Antimalware protection (with the Self-Protection and Active Protection settings enabled) – if you have one of the Cyber Protect editions.
    • Active Protection (with the Self-Protection setting enabled) – if you have one of the Cyber Backup editions.
  3. [Optional] For automatic update installation, configure the Patch management module in the protection plan.

As a result, your Zoom application will be under protection that includes the following activities:

  • Installing Zoom client updates automatically
  • Protecting Zoom processes from code injections
  • Preventing suspicious operations by Zoom processes
  • Protecting the "hosts" file from adding the domains related to Zoom