Hangouts Meet, WebEx, Zoom Feature Comparison

• Team meetings
• one-on-one meetings
• Interviews
• Hosting webinars

• only one person at a time

• Auto captioning

Meetings: 100

Webinars: 10K
(live streaming)

• Employees
• Students

• Anyone

• Chat w/ all participants (only)
• Spotlight a speaker
• Pin a speaker

Considered secure:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/7582940?hl=en

• only one person at a time

• Auto captioning (couldn't get it to work in my test)

Meetings: 1K

Webinars: 3K

• Break out sessions (up to 100 w/ up to 100 participants)

Generally considered secure:

Recent high-visibility patches for vulnerabilities
https://threatpost.com/high-severity-cisco-webex-flaws-fixed/153462/

Security whitepaper
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cloudCollaboration/spark/esp/cisco-spark-security-white-paper.pdf

• Team meetings
• Hosting webinars

• Simultaneous screen-share
• Annotation of screen sharing

• Auto live-transcription

Meetings: 300

Webinars: 500

• Employees
• Students

• Anyone

• Waiting room
• Breakout rooms
• Meeting polls
• Chat w/ specific roles
• Shared whiteboard
• Q&A in webinar
• Spotlight video
• Pin a speaker

Significant security considerations:

• Security flaws in the desktop clients
• Security flaws in encryption and recordings
• Security flaws in default methods of inviting/setup of meetings

Sources:

https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/

https://mashable.com/article/zoom-vulnerability-windows-passwords/

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/press-releases/fbi-warns-of-teleconferencing-and-online-classroom-hijacking-during-covid-19-pandemic