Amid criticism for lapses, Zoom buys security firm Keybase to enhance encryption
Zoom Video Communications is buying security firm Keybase in an effort to shore up security for its video meetings. Terms of the offer were undisclosed.
Zoom has been attempting to improve the security of its video meetings after some lapses in privacy and security as Zoom meetings grew more popular during the pandemic.
Keybase is Zoom’s first acquisition. The business will help Zoom implement end-to-end encryption, a kind of security which means Zoom has no usage of the contents of encrypted data.
Zoom says it'll publish details of the encryption design on, may 22 for feedback.
Zoom, which boasts 300 million users, had the luck to maintain the proper place at the proper time just as an incredible number of employees all over the world suddenly found themselves ordered to work from home. However the San Jose, California company has been playing catch up with security after persons hacked into others’ videos in a practice called “Zoombombing”.
