Meeting-room technology now handles sensitive data, faces wider attack surfaces, and sits under heavier regulation. Security must be built into procurement, product lifecycles, and governance — without pushing users to find workarounds.
Security is now the top purchasing criterion for videoconferencing products (31%), overtaking price and quality.
Hybrid work expands the meeting-room attack surface: users, devices, home networks, cloud services and local IT choices become potential entry points.
Regulatory frameworks such as NIS2, the Radio Equipment Delegated Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act increase requirements for risk management, reporting, and secure device design.
Why security is the purchase priority
Hybrid meeting rooms connect more endpoints than traditional setups. Laptops, personal devices, home networks, meeting-room hardware, cloud services and collaboration platforms all become potential corporate endpoints. Many of those components were not designed for enterprise use. The story highlights three leading security concerns:
Decentralized IT can increase risk. Local teams may choose different technologies and configurations, which makes enterprise-wide visibility, consistent controls and coordinated incident response harder.
Regulators and standards bodies are tightening rules for connected devices and software. The article lists several European measures and global standards that affect meeting-room technology:
Operational implications for buying and deploying meeting-room tech
Because compliance and security expectations have risen, organizations should expect vendors to demonstrate security across the product lifecycle: design, development, deployment, updates, and end-of-life support. The article stresses that non-compliant collaboration and videoconferencing products may be unusable in regulated environments.
At the same time, the user experience cannot be sacrificed. If security controls are too cumbersome or inconsistent, users will seek workarounds that worsen security. The story advises keeping some operational responsibilities local to support agility and regional needs, but not to the point of full decentralization that fragments controls.
Practical focus areas (implied by the story)
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