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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 self-host the Prose Pod server on your own premises.

Data can be easily migrated between server instances, 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 self-host Prose, you 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: 31/07/2025

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