AUTHENTICATED ACCESS INTO SECURE MEETINGS FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEMS

A mechanism is provided to positively identify audio and video endpoints as belonging to a customer\u27s organization. The mechanism configures a meeting to admit Organization Authenticated endpoints without further checks, to require User Authentication, or to require User Verification. The mechanism ensures the endpoint belongs to a person who is also an authorized user in the same organization for secure and expedited access into meetings. An additional mechanism is provided to notify meeting hosts for users trying to enter the meeting where they do not meet the security policies. Further, the mechanism allows a host to determine whether to accept or reject users