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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:

1. Against loss (backups can be exported and stored on your own cold storage facilities).
2. Against network wiretapping (strong mandatory client to server encryption, and client to client end-to-end encryption).
3. 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.).