Confidential meetings with Webex

For online meetings that require a particularly high level of confidentiality and security, audio and video data can be encrypted end-to-end (E2E). These are not decrypted on the central server in between. As host, you select the required meeting type when you set up a meeting: Webex Meetings meeting e2e encrypted. A separate activation of the encryption is not necessary (and also not possible afterwards).

If the option to select this meeting type is not available to you, please contact the helpdesk.

The following default settings are associated with this meeting type:

1. Recordings are disabled, both network-based and with the Webex client.
2. Surveys within the meeting are possible, but without displaying individual results.

The following features are also not supported:

1. Linux Clients
2. Cisco Webex Meetings Web App
3. Personal conference rooms
4. Join Before Host
5. Dial-in of video conference systems (according to conference standard SIP or H.323)
6. Telephone dial-up via the "public" telephone network
7. Network Based Recording (NBR)

• Avoid unwanted participants: Ask for a password to join the meeting and share it only with the desired participants. If necessary, you can remove the password from the invitation e-mail of the Webex server when scheduling a meeting using the scheduling options and send it in a separate way.
• Establish the identity of each participant at the beginning of the session.
• Then "close the door behind you". Use the Lock Meeting function (during the meeting in the "3-point menu"). 
   

The What Does End to End Encryption Do? page provides a brief introduction to key generation and exchange.

A further overview is provided by the Security White Paper from Cisco.