How is my data secured on Prose?
Prose's main goal is to build a credible alternative to centralized workplace instant communication platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. With Prose, you can choose to self-host or use our cloud hosting platform.
Data can be easily migrated between self-hosted and cloud, as many times as you'd like. You own your data, and it is portable.
Prose secures your data in many different ways:
Against loss (backups can be exported and stored on your own cold storage facilities).
Against network wiretapping (strong mandatory client to server encryption, and client to client end-to-end encryption).
Against server administrator reading stored messages (not possible, since messages are end-to-end encrypted).
The way your data is secured differs based on how you host Prose:
If you use our cloud hosting platform, we are responsible for your data. Server data and server backups is encrypted at rest and is yours. You can export it out of out cloud platform at any time, but you will not be able to read your team members message histories since they are end-to-end encrypted. Only the Prose apps of your team members can decrypt messages for which they are the sender or recipient.
If you self-host Prose, the way Prose hosts and secures your server data does not differ from the cloud hosting platform. You however have to bear the responsibility of securing the systems running your Prose Pod (eg. your server's Linux system), with good practices (encrypted virtual machine snapshots, firewall, etc.).
Data can be easily migrated between self-hosted and cloud, as many times as you'd like. You own your data, and it is portable.
Prose secures your data in many different ways:
Against loss (backups can be exported and stored on your own cold storage facilities).
Against network wiretapping (strong mandatory client to server encryption, and client to client end-to-end encryption).
Against server administrator reading stored messages (not possible, since messages are end-to-end encrypted).
The way your data is secured differs based on how you host Prose:
If you use our cloud hosting platform, we are responsible for your data. Server data and server backups is encrypted at rest and is yours. You can export it out of out cloud platform at any time, but you will not be able to read your team members message histories since they are end-to-end encrypted. Only the Prose apps of your team members can decrypt messages for which they are the sender or recipient.
If you self-host Prose, the way Prose hosts and secures your server data does not differ from the cloud hosting platform. You however have to bear the responsibility of securing the systems running your Prose Pod (eg. your server's Linux system), with good practices (encrypted virtual machine snapshots, firewall, etc.).
Updated on: 06/04/2025
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