Secure connections: How Google Meet keeps your video conferences protected

All over the world, businesses, schools and users depend on G Suite to help them stay connected and get work done. Google designs, builds, and operates Google Meet with security as a core requirement — not an afterthought.

Google Meet's security controls are turned on by default, so that in most cases, organisations and users won't have to do a thing to benefit from them.

Proactive Protections to Combat Abuse and Block Hijacking Attempts

Google Meet employs an array of counter-abuse protections to keep your meetings safe. These include anti-hijacking measures for both internal and external participants.

Google Meet makes it difficult to programmatically brute force meeting IDs — this is when a malicious individual attempts to guess the random string of characters in a meeting URL to gain access to a meeting they were not invited to.

In addition, Google has rolled out several features to help schools keep meetings safe and improve remote learning experiences:

• Only meeting creators and calendar owners can mute or remove other participants. This ensures that instructors can't be removed or muted from their own class.
• Only meeting creators and calendar owners can approve requests to join made by external participants. This means students can't admit uninvited external users.
• Meeting participants can't rejoin nicknamed meetings once the final participant has left. If the instructor is the last to leave, no one else can rejoin after them.

Secure Deployment and Access Controls for Admins and End-Users

To limit the attack surface and eliminate the need to push out frequent security patches, Google Meet works entirely in your browser — no plugins or software to install, which means no additional patch management burden for IT teams.

For G Suite Enterprise and G Suite for Education customers, Google offers Access Transparency, which logs any Google access to Google Meet data and provides additional audit controls for administrators.

Secure, Compliant, and Reliable Meeting Infrastructure

In Google Meet, all data is encrypted in transit by default between the client and Google — for video meetings on a web browser, on the Android and iOS apps, and in meeting rooms. Security is an integral part of all operations at Google.

Google will continue to protect Google Meet users and their data, and keep innovating with new features to help people stay connected and work together securely.