Configuration Guidelines for Secure Conferencing

To minimize the risk of toll fraud and unauthorized access to information via Audio, Web and Video conferences, perform the following configuration:

  1. Ensure that users publish password-protected conferences:

  2. Unpublish all Conferences that have been published without passwords:

  1. Enable the Leader Required option for all conferences. After this option is set, a leader must  be present even for one-time and recurring conferences. This requirement is applied to all users for all previously scheduled conferences and new conferences.

    1. Under Conference Settings dropdown menu, select Reservationless calls allowed, leader required.

    2. Click Save and then click OK.

    3. Click Restore all Users to Defaults.

  2. Disable the ability to dial out at the server level:

    1. Clear the Dial out allowed box to disable this functionality. Note that this prevents dialing out to clients including the AWV PC client, dialing out from the Conference Join page, and dialing out to the  UC360.

    2. Click Save and then click OK.

    3. Click Restore all Users to Default

  3. On the PBX, apply a Class of Restriction (COR) on the AWV extensions that disallows international calls (if acceptable).


In addition, to the above settings, instruct users to apply the following parameters when setting up conferences:

  1. Require approval for conference access:

    1. Click Audio, Web and Video Conferencing.

  1. Set a  password  at conference level:.