XZoom

DRM-X 4.0, standing for “Digital Rights Management”, is an encryption platform that helps you protect your content. Relying on a powerful security architecture, the standard offers you full control over your intellectual property and your content rights. While the platform comes with support for HTML5 and mobile operating systems, its developers also created a way for you to protect your Zoom meetings using an application called XZoom.

What XZoom actually does is provide a Zoom meeting client having the DRM-X 4.0 standard embedded. This lightweight application allows you to provide protection for your Zoom sessions and prevent those who connect via your Zoom meeting ID to record the screen, access the meeting in a virtual machine, and other such actions that might pose a data theft risk for the information you expose in your Zoom sessions.

With the world shifting from the offline to the online once again and with all the online activities, trainings, coaching sessions that occur worldwide, implementing DRM protection for Zoom meetings is surely welcomed.

While using XZoom in itself is not difficult (at least according to the available tutorials and online description of the application), keep in mind that a DRM-X 4.0 Enterprise account and a Zoom Pro account are needed to test the application. In other words, you must pay for both the DRM service and Zoom to be able to add DRM protection to your meetings.

The first step is to login to your DRM 4.0 account. Under “License Profiles” you will see an icon in the “Protect Zoom” column. Click it and then take the time to fill in the license profile settings for enabling XZoom. The Zoom SDK key and secret are required (you can get these by creating an SDK in your Zoom Pro account, in the Marketplace), as well as the Zoom meeting ID and passcode. The XZoom meeting link is then generated. You must then invite users to download XZoom and use this link to connect to your meeting.

XZoom is an interesting application but, unfortunately, it does not work unless a Zoom Pro account and a DRM 4.0 Enterprise account are available.